Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World

Mikhail Suslov

ISBN 10: 3838208714 / ISBN 13: 9783838208718

Edité par Ibidem-Verlag Jun 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the WWW's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. Eastern Christianity has travelled a long way through the centuries, amassing the intellectual riches of many generations of theologians and shaping the cultures as well as histories of many countries, Russia included, before the arrival of the digital era. New media pose questions that, when answered, fundamentally change various aspects of religious practice and thinking as well as challenge numerous traditional dogmata of Orthodox theology. For example, an Orthodox believer may now enter a virtual chapel, light a candle by drag-and-drop operations, send an online prayer request, or worship virtual icons and relics. In recent years, however, Church leaders and public figures have become increasingly skeptical about new media. The internet, some of them argue, breaches Russia's spiritual sovereignty and implants values and ideas alien to the Russian culture. This collection addresses such questions as: How is the Orthodox ecclesiology influenced by its new digital environment What is the role of clerics in the Russian WWW How is the specifically Orthodox notion of sobornost' (catholicity) being transformed here Can Orthodox activity in the internet be counted as authentic religious practice How does the virtual religious life intersect with religious experience in the real church 352 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World
• Éditeur: Ibidem-Verlag Jun 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3838208714
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783838208718
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 210 L x 148 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 210 millimètres de largeur par 148 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 456 grammes

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Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the WWW's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church.
Eastern Christianity has travelled a long way through the centuries, amassing the intellectual riches of many generations of theologians and shaping the cultures as well as histories of many countries, Russia included, before the arrival of the digital era. New media pose questions that, when answered, fundamentally change various aspects of religious practice and thinking as well as challenge numerous traditional dogmata of Orthodox theology. For example, an Orthodox believer may now enter a virtual chapel, light a candle by drag-and-drop operations, send an online prayer request, or worship virtual icons and relics. In recent years, however, Church leaders and public figures have become increasingly skeptical about new media. The internet, some of them argue, breaches Russia's "spiritual sovereignty" and implants values and ideas alien to the Russian culture.
This collection addresses such questions as: How is the Orthodox ecclesiology influenced by its new digital environment? What is the role of clerics in the Russian WWW? How is the specifically Orthodox notion of sobornost' (catholicity) being transformed here? Can Orthodox activity in the internet be counted as authentic religious practice? How does the virtual religious life intersect with religious experience in the "real" church?

À propos de l?auteur

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.