To summarise:
I’m considering religious podcasting in the traditional sense of “gathering around the Word” and how podcasting communities, as “gatherings” change what we think about “Word”, or religious text. I have as a sample American podcasters (from the second type mentioned in the slideshow). My argument is that in the web 2.0 creation and distribution of religious text there comes about a “web 2.0 sensitivity toward Christianity”, in particular:
1. A consideration of the listener as active user and not passive audience
2. A desire for intimate communication rather than widespread coverage
3. A negotiation between an acknowledgement that podcasting communities are “disembedded” and a desire for local contextualisation of the message.