L’orthodoxie roumaine et l’internet. Presence, transmission, evolution
Romanian Orthodoxy and the Internet. Presence, Transmission, Evolution

Summary/Abstract: Modernity and its technological innovations pose many challenges to religion. The current article intends chiefly to analyze the presence of the orthodox religion on the internet, with the aim to discover its main features. We will then ask ourselves in what extent the virtual environment influences the transmission of religious knowledge. A large number of religious groups have appeared in the virtual space, which claim legitimacy from the Orthodoxy. Their functioning in relation with central church authority leads to conflicts relating to visibility and primacy in the virtual space. The boom of blogs, as well as of parareligious websites (shops, pilgrimages, etc.) raises new questions and debates concerning a genuine “mutation” of public memory and identity of contemporary religion. The virtual environment in this instance is not limited anymore to the transmission of information, it also fabricates it actively.

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