Professional paper

https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.71.3.8

Religion and the Internet — New Challenges to Living the Faith

Krunoslav Novak orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-1561 ; The Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Jerko Valković ; The Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The new media are not only a means of communication, but an »atmosphere« in which millions of people throughout the world »live« on a day–to–day basis. This is a space within which new means of communication are developed, and there occur new ways of linking and forming of new communities. Considering the fact that we
live »in« and »with« the virtual world and that it strongly affects daily life, the authors reflect on how life in the virtual world affects the experience of faith. In the paper, special attention is devoted to the impact of internet communication on certain crucial determinants of faith: virtual symbolic context, new forms of communities, the
question of authority, individualization and the sense of belonging.

Keywords

religion and the internet; religion on–line; on–line religion; authority; community; belonging

Hrčak ID:

168415

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/168415

Publication date:

9.11.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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