Item Detail
-
29859
-
1
-
1
-
English
-
Communing with Compromise : Mormonism
and the Early Internet -
Mormon Studies Review
-
2018
-
5
-
1
-
Provo, UT
-
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
-
67-72
-
"As an emerging technology, the internet stirred a fascinating brew of excitement, anxiety, and fear for Jew and Gentile.1 It challenged both grassroots and top-down notions of intimacy, authenticity, and control. For Mormonism, a religion whose chronology parallels uncannily the development of electronic communication technologies, the internet joins a host of media dripping with ambivalence. In tracing the contours of Mormonism’s evolving and uneasy relationship with the twentieth century internet—from early listserv communities to institutional web development—this brief essay presents only a morsel of the richness the religion offers for the study of technology, culture, and power." [From Author]