ABSTRACT
Given its rich and multiplex nature, treatments of religious authority vis-à-vis developments in digital media have taken on varying forms and scales. Although the role of authority had received relatively less attention in the earlier phase of digital religion research, this topic has in recent years seen a welcome uptick in academic activity. This chapter provides a thematic analysis of studies examining the impact of the internet on religious authority, particularly in the recent two decades. This review observes much of the literature operates on at least three different logics—(a) disjuncture and displacement, (b) continuity and complementarity, and (c) dialectics and paradox.
