Whatsapp como campo de batalha
Reflexões Ético-Metodológicas a Partir De Uma Etnografia Em Grupos De Oração Evangélicos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4804968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorena Mochel (0000-0002-0248-0322, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | e216670 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GIS - Gesto Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2525-3123 • E-ISSN: 2525-3123 |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216670 |
| OpenAlex | W4401549836 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
How can anthropological research help to understand the effects of the centrality of the use of digital media in everyday religious life? Distancing myself from apparent and erroneous oppositions between traditional and modern that questions like this often raise, I investigated ways in which the use of smartphones is configured as "battlefields" for praying, preaching, telling testimonies, establishing intimacy with God and overcoming demons. . Through ethnography in "prayer groups" composed of evangelical women, I reflect in this article on my positionality in fieldwork carried out in co-presence circuits that included churches, homes and two WhatsApp groups leaded by a couple of Pentecostal pastors. By exploring the ambivalent meanings in the religious uses of cell phones, I point to intersectional dynamics that make WhatsApp a central religious device for non-institutionalized pastoral careers and the collective exercise of evangelical faith
Art · Ethnography · Humanities · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Education and Digital Technologies · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |