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religious online communities  

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  • For many people, the Internet encourages a search for spiritual connections in a postmodern world—a marketplace of competing voices that can often lead to feelings of isolation and information overload. Online religious communities are interactive online networks of individuals who share a common religious practice or spirituality and unite through specific faith-based discussion topics or activities online. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Online Communities, Religious]

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