Title: C3 Church and the Digital Reformation: Invented Traditions and Post-Modernity
Abstract: Religion plays an important role in society today. While there is discourse about its continued reliance on tradition and its inability to change, and indeed its collapse (Malpas, 2005), religious practise has not died out. Much social and political debate is centred around religious issues (like abortion and euthanasia), and many fundamentalist groups are enjoying resurgence (Inglehart & Baker, 2000). How, then, have religious institutions, in particular Christianity, managed to keep their practises and teachings relevant to their audiences as time passes? Has a religious institution ever been able to do so? Beckham suggests that “Even traditional Churches would like to become less isolated from the world in which it lives and more relevant to the needs of society” (1997, p.26-27). Beckham’s suggestion will be addressed in this essay with reference to the C3 Church, a Pentecostal Christian church founded in Australia in 2008. The essay will examine the way churches have adapted their traditions in the past, before comparing that to the C3 Church and its place in today’s fastpaced, post-modern society.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-11-14
Language: en
Type: article
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