William T. FitzGerald, an assistant professor of English at Rutgers–Camden, will discuss how prayer is delivered online and in various digital formats during a colloquium on campus.
“Prayer, There’s an App for That: Delivering Prayer Online” will be held 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 12 in the faculty lounge on the third floor of Armitage Hall on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.
“I will be looking in greater detail at several specific sites that highlight features of online prayer, continuities and discontinuities from “traditional” prayer when it migrates into cyberspace, prayer request sites, and an online chapel,” says FitzGerald.
“My point is that not only is there an app for that, so to speak, but that prayer is itself a spiritual app for the performance of virtual communication,” he says.
FitzGerald teaches courses on the history of rhetoric, figurative language, and media studies at Rutgers–Camden. He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Maryland.
Armitage Hall is located at 311 North Fifth Street on the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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