Mormon Studies Review
Keywords
Mormonism Media, Mormonism, LDS Faith, Technology in Religion
Abstract
As an emerging technology, the internet stirred a fascinating brew of excitement, anxiety, and fear for Jew and Gentile.1 It challenged both grassroots and top-down notions of intimacy, authenticity, and control. For Mormonism, a religion whose chronology parallels uncannily the development of electronic communication technologies, the internet joins a host of media dripping with ambivalence. In tracing the contours of Mormonism’s evolving and uneasy relationship with the twentieth-century internet—from early listserv communities to institutional web development—this brief essay presents only a morsel of the richness the religion offers for the study of technology, culture, and power.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Feller, Gavin
(2018)
"Communing with Compromise: Mormonism and the Early Internet,"
Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18809/msr.2018.0108
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol5/iss1/27