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Computer Mediated Communications and Religion: An Evolutionary Primer

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The research examines the field of Computer Mediated Communications and religion from an evolutionary perspective by tracing five subjectively selected developments in this field of research and, in so doing, offers a brief primer by which to navigate the morass of research regarding this topic.
 
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Tsai, S. (2015) Computer Mediated Communications and Religion: An Evolutionary Primer. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 117-126. doi: 10.4236/jss.2015.31014.
 
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