A B S T R A C TThis article aims to present a model for investigating the capacity of mobile devices to frame religious experience by the creation, consumption and distribution of religious media text. Exploring three iPhone religious 'apps', this article will consider how the iPhone frames religious information and privileges aesthetic styles, which affects how users of the device connect with religious media text and other users. This exploration offers insights into how the iPhone as an object, together with the metaphors and symbols that are incumbent with it, frame religious experience and participation.How should we understand religious experience in the age of the iPhone? From its release in June 2007 until the end of June 2010, more than seventy-three million iPhones have been sold worldwide. Given that over 1,000 applications have been built for iPhone users to connect to specifically religious information, the iPhone presents as an increasingly more viable alternative medium of religious communication to computerbased Internet and other electronic media. Christians can now watch video recordings of sermons, read the Bible in multiple translations in many languages, follow guided meditations and pray from written prayers, all on a device that fits in a pocket. More than merely consuming religious text, Christians may create and share religious content from the Studies in World Christianity 17.2 (2011): 137-155
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