Zoompartation: Benny Hinn’s touch in Zoom healing
In June 2020, due to COVID-19, Benny Hinn transitioned to semi-regular bi-weekly Zoom Healing Services that allowed him to gather diverse audiences of his global adherents in healing services that complicate what it means to impart and to touch. Having attended every Zoom Healing Service, in this ar...
| Published in: | Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2022
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| In: |
Religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hinn, Benny 1952-
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Zoom (Software)
/ Faith healing
/ Bodily contact
/ Touch
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDG Free church NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Faith Healing
B Pentecostalism B Covid-19 B impartation B Benny Hinn B Zoom B Touch |
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| Summary: | In June 2020, due to COVID-19, Benny Hinn transitioned to semi-regular bi-weekly Zoom Healing Services that allowed him to gather diverse audiences of his global adherents in healing services that complicate what it means to impart and to touch. Having attended every Zoom Healing Service, in this article, I will explore Hinn’s haptic use of Zoom technology. Why does Hinn remain committed to touching the screen? How does this reshape and reimagine touch and impartation? How is the divine imagined in this transaction as it traverses the globe in seconds? Hinn’s use of Zoom adds a new media to a technological savvy instantiation of Christianity that is committed to imbibing media with experiences of the sacred. This article discusses Hinn’s addition of another technological dimension – video conferencing software – to a long list of technologies that Pentecostals use in their efforts to touch the world. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2022.2051804 |