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“Type Amen” or Perish!: Religious Deception on Facebook

“Type Amen” or Perish!: Religious Deception on Facebook

Lily Chimuanya, Ebuka Igwebuike
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522585350|ISBN10: 1522585354|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522585367|EISBN13: 9781522585374
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch027
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Chimuanya, Lily, and Ebuka Igwebuike. "“Type Amen” or Perish!: Religious Deception on Facebook." Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online, edited by Innocent E. Chiluwa and Sergei A. Samoilenko, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 503-518. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch027

APA

Chimuanya, L. & Igwebuike, E. (2019). “Type Amen” or Perish!: Religious Deception on Facebook. In I. Chiluwa & S. Samoilenko (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online (pp. 503-518). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch027

Chicago

Chimuanya, Lily, and Ebuka Igwebuike. "“Type Amen” or Perish!: Religious Deception on Facebook." In Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online, edited by Innocent E. Chiluwa and Sergei A. Samoilenko, 503-518. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch027

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Abstract

This chapter examines religious discourse on Facebook and brings to the fore the recurrent deceptive requests that have given rise to new forms of religious extremism and radicalism. Many Christians have turned to social media as a medium where their faith can be practiced and with the intention of enforcing it on others. One major avenue through which this ensues is in the inherent ideological requests on Facebook where members are threatened to either type “Amen” or be afflicted with curses as punishment. These misleading requests usually attract instantaneous thousands of “likes” and consenting responses that depict underlying fear. An awareness of these extremist inclinations against the backdrop of religion is crucial to the understanding and interpretation of the semiotic realities within such Facebook posts.

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