It is a concept used for the first Lutherans and refers to conservative Christians. The number of evangelicals is very high.
Published in Chapter:
American Fundamentalism in the New Media: Transmedia Narratives of Baptists, Evangelists, and Methodists
Ceren Yegen (Muş Alparslan University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5357-1.ch024
Abstract
Evangelists, conservative Protestants, are an important majority in the United States. Baptists and Methodists, alleged to be different groups of American Protestants like Evangelists, perform a number of fundamentalist activities through social media. Related groups use hypertextual, intertextual, and current narrative stratagies in social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Therefore, in this study, Awakening Evangelism (@EvangelismDaily), Baptist News Global (@baptist_news), and WV United Methodist (@WVUMC) who support the groups mentioned in the study (Evangelists, Baptists, and Methodists) and report USA as location's Twitter accounts' shares were examined. Hereby, how the American fundamentalism realized through new media was researched.