Tag: Spiritual market
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Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion
Over the past couple years, religionistas of all sorts have attempted to navigate a new media landscape in which old constructions of religious authority, identity, and practice are changing almost by the minute. This surely marks the beginning something of a Second Coming of religion in digitally-integrated form.
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Digital conversion: Social media, engagement, and the ‘I am a Mormon’ campaign
Digital conversion: Social media, engagement, and the ‘I am a Mormon’ campaign Brian Smith, Purdue University Abstract Religion and social media present a unique context for exploring communication and relationship cultivation. The relationships between religious organisations and their publics (i.e. members, converts) are arguably deeper than, and certainly different from, many other organization – public…
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What Your Church Must Do To Connect With Millennials
Recent surveys by the Barna Group have shed light on this trend by examining those 18- to 29-year-olds who used to identify themselves closely with faith and the church, but who have since begun to wrestle with that identity. In fact, between high school and turning 30, 43% of these once-active Millennials drop out of…
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Finding Faith on Facebook
Did you know that Jesus has 291,060 followers? Although he’s still trailing the Beiber, that’s still a pretty legitimate following for man who died 2,000 years ago. And he’s not alone in this case; more and more religious leaders are joining him in the Twittersphere, perhaps after asking themselves, What Would Jesus Do?