The goals of this thesis are to showcase the creation of a method for scraping and cataloging data on smartphone applications that were accumulated under a set criteria of individual religion search parameters. It is through the analysis of this data in tandem with establishing demographics for smartphone use that this thesis explores the relationship between religious community and space and internet communication technologies. To establish this connection this thesis begins by dedicating the first chapter to outlining current scholarship on religious space and community in context of the internet. By creating a baseline for researching religion in the digital sphere this thesis builds an approach to studying the relationship between religion, smartphones, and smartphone applications. In addition, this thesis continues to build on notions of religious community and space and how these notions function on smartphones and with smartphone users. This thesis continues by dedicating the second chapter to creating a historical outline for smartphones and smartphone platforms as well as establishing user demographics and adoption rates based on age, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic position, and education. This is accomplished first by tracing the evolution of the internet from the telegraph to the World Wide Web and secondly by establishing the technological evolution of the smartphone and the smartphone application. By using research data from sources such as Pew Research Center the author illustrates how not all smartphone platforms are created equally and that there is a socio-economic element to these divisions. These statistics demonstrate how as a society our social behaviorisms are becoming increasingly digital in nature. That it is not unreasonable to hypothesize that this same digitization is happening to institutionalized religious beliefs and practices in relation to religious space and community. The proposed method for data collection and the author’s initial findings are outlined in chapter three of this thesis. By organizing and sanitizing the findings for the pre-established search criteria in Microsoft Excel, the author categorizes comparable data from one platform against another and by one religion against another. Using this approach allowed the author to compare findings in regards to operating system, mainreligion, sub-religion, category, and maturity rating. Chapter three concludes by discussing five different forms of religious smartphone applications which are based on what these applications are facilitating for users. This allows the author to establish what kind of impact religious smartphone applications and the dispersal rates of those applications may have on religious community and space. This thesis concludes by speculating that there is a connection between one’s choices of mobile technology and what institutionalized religion a user may be participant. The author hypothesizes that the role religious community plays in one’s digital religious belief and practice may contribute to electronic colonialism in terms of smartphone platforms within those communities. Although the proposed method is a great entry point to studying this phenomenon, further refining of the data procurement process and how the results are displayed would need to be accomplished for further analysis to occur.