eprintid: 11300
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/13/00
datestamp: 2010-11-24 14:43:53
lastmod: 2014-08-19 00:47:31
status_changed: 2010-12-16 12:02:20
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Teusner, Paul
title: Imaging Religious Identity: Intertextual Play among Postmodern Christian Bloggers
ispublished: pub
subjects: 200
divisions: 72050
keywords: Sinne , Internet , Christentum , Weblogs , Emerging Churchsenses , internet , Christianity , weblogs , Emerging Church
cterms_swd: Ästhetik
cterms_swd: Wahrnehmung
cterms_swd: Religion
abstract: In the fledgling but rapidly growing academic discipline of religion, media and culture, much attention has been paid to the use of new media to create and develop individual religious identities, build connections and foster group identities. Yet to date most research has focussed on exchanges of literal text between users, and little has considered the importance of visual text (either still images or videos) in the communication of meaning in online environments. In this presentation, I would like to introduce the image as an object of research in the construction of religious identity in online interaction. The presentation will explore the blogs of 35 Australians who are conversant with a religious movement known as “the emerging church”, a global collection of ideas and conversations residing mainly in traditional Protestant churches that seeks new expressions of faithful living in postmodern urban culture, and challenges the consumerism of contemporary evangelicalism seen in “the megachurch”. By the use of captioned images, video capture (including links to YouTube) and web page design, I will show how bloggers endeavour to present themselves as being “on the margins” of conventional Christian life and practice, and employ intertextual play to challenge modern binary oppositions of orthodoxy/heresy, art/dirt, fun/work, and constructions of gender and ethnicity.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2010
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00011300
portal_cluster_id: p-relinternet
portal_order: 04.1
ppn_swb: 1650465424
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-113004
language: eng
bibsort: TEUSNERPAUIMAGINGREL2010
full_text_status: public
publication: Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 04.1 Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses
editors_name: Heidbrink, Simone
editors_name: Miczek, Nadja
citation:   Teusner, Paul  (2010) Imaging Religious Identity: Intertextual Play among Postmodern Christian Bloggers.  Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 04.1 Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11300/1/06.pdf