Religious Fundamentalism and IT

One view of religious fundamentalism was that is is contradictory to information technology. But a second study believes that the Internet is culturally constructed to adapt to religious fundamentalism and that community is also affected by information technology.

A religious fundamentalist community is characterized by subordination of large groups to an elite religious authority which control the channels of communication using censorship as their major means of control, by women using technology to discover and pass on information to aid other women, signs the community is trying hard to preserve the original meaning of its texts, with as little adaption to modernity as possible, and religious fundamentalists using IT to get information on their own religions, not to learn about other ones.

Technology is used as a tool to further religious studies and goals. It is also being used for political and economic reasons in an increasingly global market. The technology is quick, cheap, efficient, and allow users more discretion.