Book Review: Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
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JMQspjmqJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly1077-6990XXXX-XXXXSAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA10.1177/107769901142813410.1177_1077699011428134Book ReviewsBook Review: Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the InternetFerréJohn P.University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA32012891139141Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet. HowardRobert Glenn. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2011. pp. $75 hbk. $24 pbk.© 2012 Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication2012Association for Education in Journalism & Mass CommunicationAsk most Americans about the end of the world, and they might mention The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey’s 1970 bestseller (still in print) that tied the apocalypse to events in Israel and the Middle East. Or they might mention the sixteen Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins that captivated tens of millions of readers with stories of violence and destruction inflicted on the earth after the rapture.Newsy Americans are likely to recall Christian radio host Harold Camping’s much publicized prediction that Judgment Day would take place last May. They might even point to the Mayan calendar that ends with a flood in 2012. Almost everyone, though, will overlook thousands of websites, where, according to University of Wisconsin communication arts scholar