[ecrea] New book: "Online Catholic Communities. Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization"

New book: "Online Catholic Communities. Community, Authority, and 
Religious Individualization" by Marta Kołodziejska. Routledge, 2018
Published in the series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture

The Catholic Church has been moving into a new phase, one where its 
congregation can choose to meet and practice elements of their own 
version of their faith on online forums. This new form of congregating 
allows for an individualised faith to manifest itself outside of the 
usual church authority structures. Online Catholic Communities provides 
insight into how religious and non-religious internet forum users 
interact and form groups during interactions; it also discusses the 
transformation of religious authority and its emanations in these 
digital contexts.

Using the top three online forums used by Polish Catholics as a case 
study, this project explores the formation of these online communities. 
It then looks at the alternative authority structures that emerge online 
and how these lead to an individualised form of religious engagement 
that can develop independently of mainstream doctrine. Through 
highlighting how religious discourse in Poland is appropriated and 
creatively modified by users in fulfilling their own spiritual needs, 
this work reveals the constant interplay between online and offline 
religious contexts.

This monograph includes cutting edge research on online expressions of 
religious community, authority and individualisation and as such will be 
of keen interest to scholars of religious studies and the sociology of 
religion, as well as communication studies.


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