EUROPEAN NETWORK OF HEALTH CARE CHAPLAINCY: AN EXERCISE IN BUILDING VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

In: Health and social care chaplaincy, S. 30-33

Abstract

The author describes the development of electronic communication which has enabled the development of the European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy. He argues that such electronic communities are real communities, but that in this case, the electronic community exists to foster a sense of community which reaches fulfilment in the face-to-face meeting of the participants.