Open AccessPILGRIMAGE AND OTHER RITUALS IN CYBERSPACE
Author(s) -
Zulfiia Yu. Pavlichenko
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2018.1.52-57
Subject(s) - pilgrimage , cyberspace , the internet , cult , terminology , sociology , relation (database) , media studies , world wide web , political science , history , computer science , law , philosophy , ancient history , linguistics , database
Now the Internet as the media channel is becoming the main mass media for religious organizations. This channel not only allows communities of believers to light their activity and to look for new adherents, but influences dogmas and religious practices, allows religious institutes to be more open and flexible in relation to life realities. Rituals in cyberspace have become one of the vivid expressions of social activity related to religion. Under the influence of the Internet some traditional religious practices can expand modes of the existence, forming new ways of cult activity. Pilgrimage is the most frequent online religious practice. This article discerns the phenomenon of pilgrimage online in the world web-net. The author conducts an analysis of the place of the Internet pilgrimage in the newly emerged system of religious practices in cyberspace. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the discussion of the terminology of the researched topic. It provides description of the main approaches to the study of online religious practices...