Emerging church bloggers in Australia:
Prophets, priests and rulers in God’s virtual world

I’ve started writing

Finally. The work in progress is here. Please check it out and make comments, and be part of my PhD!

Other stuff

Below is a small but growing collection of works that follow the path of my postgraduate research. To open them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free by going to the Adobe site here. Each link opens a new window.

Virtual Church
This is presentation I gave at the Australian Student Christian Movement Virtual Church conference, 29 June 2006 in Melbourne. A bit of theory around how we approach the virtual in CMC and in religion.

Research proposal
…as presented to the Doctoral Colloquium at the AoIR conference in Brisbane in September 2006. Accompanying PowerPoint presentation here.

Identity construction in the “emerging church” blogosphere
My first steps towards a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying how “emerging church” bloggers construct individual and communal religious identities.

A draft title of contents, outlining some of themes and concerns in my research thesis. Actual thesis probably coming out in November 2122.

Theses

A few preliminary thoughts of ideas and claims governing my research:
Thesis 1: The Cyberchristian
Thesis 2: Virtual community and authentic identity
Thesis 3: A postmodern embrace
Thesis 4: Authority and rebellion
Thesis 5: Nationalisation, globalisation and becoming “glocal”

AoIR 8.0 conference papers

Christianity 2.0 is a reflection on the status of my research half-way in, but mostly it’s a clean-up of the theses listed above.
Blogging religion is a paper about the methodology, its problems and opportunities.