CHAPTER 9

No doubt, the smartphone has fundamentally changed how people communicate (Bellar et al., 2018). The ubiquity of smartphones and their ancillary uses make it hard to avoid them which is also impacting and changing the way people practice their religion. Smartphone is shaping religious people themselves and changing their behaviour. Many religious adherents are adopting online technologies to make it easier for them to communicate ideas and engage in religious worship (Stokel-Walker, 2017; Kanmani et al., 2017).

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