ABSTRACT As nonhierarchical, egalitarian characteristics of the digital realm provide practitioners with novel avenues to express and enact their beliefs, religious authority becomes a significant subject of academic inquiry. This paper investigates the construction and perception of spiritual authority within the Wisdom School, a minority Christian community committed to Christian mystical and...
This article analyzes the Christian concert film Live in Miami: Welcome to the Aftermath to investigate how mass media evoke numinous experiences. Using a framework that locates technological determinism within theories of religious encounters, the analysis explores how Christian concert films create numinous experiences through shot composition, editing, and content selection. The article...