Baptists actually share the same basic beliefs with many Protestants. They advocate that only believers should be baptized and baptism must be done by immersion. They are Protestants. The presence of the Baptist began to be seen in Turkey.
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.