The Study of Activities of Dominant pentecostal Currents on Cyberspace
- Author:
- kowthar Taheri
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Abrahamic Religions
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2013
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- AliReza Ebrahim
- Advisor(s):
- Behrouz Haddadi, Yahya kamalipour
Pentecostalism is a protestanist movement inside Christianity with growing spreed worldwide. This study aimd to work on this movement’s emergence and growth by the means of world wide web or internet. The distinction of the movement and mainstream Christianity is their emphasis on personal experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts. In this research Pentecostal websites were studied. The method choozen here was content analysis of the webs. Web sites were examined and finally the most popular ones were shown. Some factors of their success was mentioned: investigation on children and the youth,interchurch communication,using symbles and shapes instead of text, incouraging members to share making churches.