id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_gvnmzwmpnfeaxeipajn3ytvoz4 Ruth Tsuria Get Out of Church! The Case of #EmptyThePews: Twitter Hashtag between Resistance and Community 2020 13 .pdf application/pdf 8554 680 61 online signifier for sharing stories of religious abuse, and thus a format for identity and community An analysis of 250 tweets with #EmptyThePews revels five different uses of the hashtag, Keywords: hashtag; activism; online communities; online social movements; digital religion; Trump; such as Twitter hashtag, social movements, resistance, community online, and the relationship between #EmptyThePews starts as a clear call of action, a resistance to churches that support Trump or Similarly, other users used the tweet to share their stories of why they left the church in the past. than explicitly calling people to leave now, these users re-appropriate the hashtag for sharing personal These experiences then led these users to leave the church and use the hashtag to use the hashtag, for example: "#EmptyThePews if your church supports hate don't go" or "Annnnd yet Available online: http://religiondispatches.org/i-createdthe-hashtag-emptythepews-because-its-time-for-evangelicals-to-walk-out-of-toxic-churches/ (accessed on http://religiondispatches.org/i-created-the-hashtag-emptythepews-because-its-time-for-evangelicals-to-walk-out-of-toxic-churches/ http://religiondispatches.org/i-created-the-hashtag-emptythepews-because-its-time-for-evangelicals-to-walk-out-of-toxic-churches/ ./cache/work_gvnmzwmpnfeaxeipajn3ytvoz4.pdf ./txt/work_gvnmzwmpnfeaxeipajn3ytvoz4.txt