ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the core data set for this research on the ordinary social performance of Bible engagement in digital culture. It notes that readers might choose to read Chapter 5’s wider sociological exploration before reading the data lists in this chapter because of the increasing importance of the terms ‘therapeutic/anthropocentric’ and ‘propositional/theocentric’, which are dependent on a reading of Abby Day’s Believing in Belonging and Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton’s Soul Searching. After exploring some caveats about the data lists, the chapter goes through a (Digital Humanities-based) process of creating a control list of popular Bible verses in print which is found to be divided between propositional and therapeutic verses. It then moves on to explore the 20 lists, mostly from YouVersion and BibleGateway, which form the central data set for this research. It also creates an aggregate list of the most popular verses across all the data.
