Online Religion

Helland, Christopher

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1493

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“…The analysis of the online dimensions of Jewish spirituality draws on works in digital anthropology that understand the digital has become a constitutive part of what makes us human (Miller and Horst, 2020). The scholarship on “digital religion” (Campbell, 2013; Helland, 2005) acknowledges that online and offline religious spheres have become blended or integrated and that digital technology is an important platform for extending and altering religious practice (Campbell, 2013). The digital texts at the heart of this article both reify and generate new forms of religious practice and, consequently, form new Jewish subjectivities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Secularize, psychologize, neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish self of North American Jews

Werczberger¹

2023

Ethos

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This article unpacks the construction of the Jewish spiritual self in three current projects of Jewish spirituality in North America—Jewish mindfulness, the neo‐Musar movement, and the nascent Positive Judaism—and explores their relations with the neoliberal economic regime and ideology. Based on the content analysis of 30 popular online and offline texts, among them promotional websites, podcasts, and published works, and data gathered during long‐term ethnographic study on Jewish spirituality in Israel and North America, the article argues that the highly individualized Jewish spirituality has become an institutionally mediated form of Jewish self‐expression. By building on anthropological works about the cultural implications of neoliberalism on the self and following the lead of the foundational works linking Jewish cultural production and neoliberalism in North America, this article offers a perspective on Jewish spirituality that recognizes the relations between neoliberalism, self‐cultivation, and community life. Fusing the spiritual, therapeutic, and neoliberal discourses, projects of Jewish spirituality package neoliberal ideals such as choice, emotional, resilience, well‐being, and happiness as Jewish spiritual commodities. At the same time, the subjectivity cultivated in these projects is a Jewish‐specific formation—a self that is highly individualized but remains strongly connected to its religious‐ethnic community and cultural tradition. Jewish spirituality is thus used here as a case study for how neoliberalism affects contemporary forms of religious practice and creates new ethical orientations to communal belongings.

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Secularize, psychologize, neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish self of North American Jews

Werczberger¹

2023

Ethos

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“…En basit anlamı ile din insanlar için hayat bilgisidir. Hayat bu bilgi yokmuş gibi yaşanamaz" (Bilgin: 2001: 47 (Helland, 2000;Campbell, 2013;Haberli, 2019: 309-310 Bu değişimlerin geçmişten beridir toplumsal dönüşüm alt yapısı bulunmaktadır. Sanal ortamdaki din hocaları ile gerçek hayattaki din hocaları ile kurulan iletişim biçimi bile süreçle birlikte değişime uğramaktadır.…”

Section: Din Eğitimi: Kavramsal Ve Kuramsal Girişunclassified

Dijital Çağda Dini Ritüel Algısının Dönüşümü

BERK,

ÇETİN

2023

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Bu çalışma, tarihsel süreç içerisinde yaşanan gelişmelerden en güncel olan dijital çağın toplumsal kurumlar arasından din kurumuna etkileri ve bunun sonucunda ortaya çıkan bireysel ve toplumsal anlamdaki değişiklikleri belirleme amacı taşımaktadır. Bu noktada dijital çağda din eğitimi alan bireyler ve dijitalleşme ile din kurumunun kesişimi ile karşılaştıkları deneyimler ve verdikleri tepkiler önem arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmada teknolojik gelişmelerin dini alana sirayet etmesi neticesinde görüşmecilerin tekno- dini pratikleri yaşamlarına yansıtış biçimlerini ve din kurumu algısının değişimi ve dönüşümünü belirlemek amacıyla derinlemesine görüşme tekniği kullanılmıştır. Tekno dini pratikler bağlamında değişen, dönüşen ve farklılaşan din fenomeni üzerinden oluşturulan çalışma, Kahramanmaraş İlinde yer alan Hacı Mehmet Kalay Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi'nde eğitim gören 15 gönüllü kız öğrenci ile yapılan görüşmelerin sonucudur. Alan araştırması sonunda dijital iletişim teknolojilerinin gün geçtikçe çeşitlenmesi, fonksiyonlarının artması ve yaygınlaşması, bireysel ve toplumsal düzeyde hızlı bir dijitalleşme sürecine geçilmesini sağlayarak din olgusunu da etkisi altına aldığı görülmüştür. Bu bağlamda, üretilen dijital dini uygulamaların varlığı söz konusu olmuştur. Dijital gelişmelerin dini eğitime ve pek çok dini alana kolaylık sağladığı, katılımcıların yaşamlarının daha pratik hale geldiği gerçeği ortaya çıkmıştır. Katılımcıların teknolojik gelişmeleri dini yaşam alanlarında etkin bir şekilde tercih ettikleri görülmüştür.

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“…In the case of the pictures, the person blessed is a passive subject, but during video calls, pilgrims turn the practice into an interactive one, sharing virtual practice, and sainthood reaches people who may reside in other parts of the world. The pilgrimage thus becomes a real-time experience, which can be lived from one location to another (Helland 2013). It loses some of its locally attributed meanings but acquires new ones, associated with those who gain access to this real-time experience.…”

Section: Broadcasting Shna Ndou Sainthoodmentioning

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Religious Materiality and Virtual Sainthood: The Case of Shna Ndou (St. Anthony) Pilgrimage in Laç

Bria,

Giorda

2023

Religions

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The interdisciplinary perspective, between history and anthropology, of our contribution has as its subject the pilgrimage at Kisha e Shna Ndout (Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua) in Laç, northern Albania, which is one of the most visited religious sites in southeastern Europe. The church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented throughout the year by thousands of pilgrims. On the 12th and 13th of June of each year, an official pilgrimage is held, which reaches its climax on the night of the 12th, when thousands of Albanians sleep in the shrine seeking blessings and healing. The pilgrimage practices show how materiality is a privileged means of reaching out to a religious place. This materiality is grounded in the multilayered built environment, which has been built and rebuilt and especially reconstructed after the collapse of the socialist regime—a process that reveals the pivotal function of secular infrastructures in the case of religious places. Virtuality is also an important aspect of the pilgrimage, and so materiality and virtuality form a single milieu that reshapes perceptions. Through participation in this pilgrimage, virtuality is sacralized and promotes sanctity.

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Online Religion

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Secularize, psychologize, neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish self of North American Jews

Secularize, psychologize, neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish self of North American Jews

Dijital Çağda Dini Ritüel Algısının Dönüşümü

Religious Materiality and Virtual Sainthood: The Case of Shna Ndou (St. Anthony) Pilgrimage in Laç

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