COMS 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Robert H. Schuller, Margaret Wertheim, Televangelism
3 Apr 2020
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Religion is alive in the 21st century. But really, there is really no way to properly define this term. Modern society does not mesh with traditional church religion (luckmann) Secularization hypothesis: predicting what religion would be like in the future. Very few people attended church during the middle ages. A greek word by a science fiction writer, william gibson. He talks about the bodyless exhortation of cyberspace . Making sense of cyberspace were based on religious metaphors (margaret wertheim) When online, we break free from bodily existence (heim) The cloud is a metaphor for where we store information. Evangelicals are a group of christians who have a strong passion or feeling of sharing the gospel with others. They were fascinated in using this new media technology to reach a larger audience. The first example of this is the hour of power (robert schuller) Modern day example of this is hillsong.
