"Type Amen" or Perishl Religious Deception on Facebook
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IGI Global Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global)
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This chapter examines religious discourse on Facebook and brings to the fore the recurrent deceptive
requests that have given rise to new forms of religious extremism and radicalism. Many Christians have
turned to social media as a medium where their faith can be practiced and with the intention of enforcing
it on others. One major avenue through which this ensues is in the inherent ideological requests on
Facebookwhere members are threatened to either type "Amen" or be afflicted with curses as punishment.
These misleading requests usually attract instantaneous thousands of "likes" and consenting responses
that depict underlying fear. An awareness of these extremist inclinations against the backdrop of religion
is crucial to the understanding and interpretation of the semiotic realities within such Facebook posts.
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PE English, PR English literature