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Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World : the Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0.
This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the digital era's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. A believer may now enter a virtual chapel, light a candle through drag-and-drop, send an online prayer request, or worship virtual icons and relics. In rece...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgement; Table of Content; Foreword; Introduction; The church, the state, and Russian society; Digital religions worldwide; State-of-the-art; An outline of the book; References; Chapter 1. The Medium for Demonic Energies: 'Digital Anxiety' in the Russian Orthodox Church; Introduction; Methodology; The paradox of cyber-skepticism; The doubling of the world: theological tradition and new media; De-sacralization of the sacraments; Anthropological threat; Anonymity and pseudonymity; Conclusions; References.
- Chapter 2. Russia's Immoral Other: Moral Panics and the Antichrist on Russian Orthodox WebsitesIntroduction; Russian Antichrist: the immoral other becomes an empty signifier; Moral panics and the Antichrist on Runet; The Apocalypse, the Antichrist and eschatological fears; Globalisation, electronic documents and the number of the Beast; Pussy Riot, modern culture, and other moral dangers; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Wi-Fi in Plato's Cave: The Digital Icon and the Phenomenology of Surveillance; Introduction; The surveillance-mirror; The acheiropoietos-icon as an imaginary image.
- The surveillance-gazeThe icon's gaze; The digital icon; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4. The Body of Christ Online: The Russian Orthodox Church and (Non- )Liturgical Interactivity on the Internet; Introduction; 1. Digital religion and the Russian Orthodox Church; 2. Object; 3. Liturgical and non-liturgical interactivity; 4. Bridging time and space; 5. Vox populi and media theories; 6. The ROC's online standards; Case Studies; 1. Websites for interactive discussions; 2. Online challenge to gender conventions; 3. 'Cybergrace'; 4. Language as a medium; Conclusion; References.
- Chapter 5. Heretical Virtual Movement in Russian Live Journal Blogs: Between Religion and PoliticsIntroduction; Methodology; Vladimir's Gospel, or why one should not believe in God; Golyshev's heterodoxy: a shift from theological to political definition; Concepts of Church, sin and the role of the Scriptures in Golyshev's heterodoxy; Golyshev's online heterodoxy and offline mixed religiosity; The LJ heretical community as an online religious minority; Conclusion; References.