Living the eighth day online: liturgies, sacramental life, and building human relationships

Online human relationships can exacerbate some of the worst of our tendencies toward each other, including deception, selfishness, apathy and disembodiment, and sexual harassment. Yet Christians can also bring their prayer practices online, as ways of bringing God’s new creation (known in Christian...

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Auteur principal: Bennett, Jana Marguerite 1975- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2020]
Dans: Theology & sexuality
Année: 2020, Volume: 26, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 123-139
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Médias en ligne / Prière / Liturgie
RelBib Classification:CB Spiritualité chrétienne
RC Liturgie
ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication
Sujets non-standardisés:B online relationships
B digital theology
B online sacraments
B Liturgical Theology
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé:Online human relationships can exacerbate some of the worst of our tendencies toward each other, including deception, selfishness, apathy and disembodiment, and sexual harassment. Yet Christians can also bring their prayer practices online, as ways of bringing God’s new creation (known in Christian tradition as the Eighth Day) to the forefront. Through examination of three distinctive online prayer practices, combined with discussion of liturgical and sacramental theologies, this article shows that prayer online also holds out possibilities of reconciliation and justice as potential responses to negative human relationship tendencies.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contient:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1814507