Title | Exploring the religious frameworks of the digital realm: Offline-Online-Offline transfers of ritual performance |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Heidbrink, S |
Journal | Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 2 |
Keywords | Communication, information, methodology, Ritual, study of religion, technology |
Abstract | Looking at the constantly growing field of religion online, the shifts in and the new definition of religious frameworks become an increasingly important topic. In the field of religious rituals, it is not only the participant, location and conduction of the ritual that is affected by this shift; also the researchers have to overthrow their former theologically resp. systemic based definition of religiousness and spirituality due to the fact that on the Internet, religion is defined and realized in a completely different way by its participants. This is true even in the field of Christianity as the example of a ritual created by some British „Emerging Church“ groups shows. |
URL | http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=1703 |