Virtual Ayatollahs: The Expansion and Contraction of Religious Authority
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Authors
Riggs, Robert J.
Issue Date
2015-03-27
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Islam , Internet , Religious authority
Alternative Title
Abstract
Beginning the early 1990s the ways in which humans communicated with one another went through a rapid and irreversible evolution, based upon the invention and spread of the Internet. Reaching into all aspects of human life – communication, science, education and of course, religion – the structural changes that took place have impacted humanity in various ways. In Shi’ite Islam various competing religious authoritative sources have been created, and old ones have evolved to accommodate the newly free access to information made possible through the Internet.