Mapping Digital Religion: Exploring the Need for New Typologies

Today, it is challenging to separate online and offline spaces and activities, and this is also true of digital religion as online and offline religious spaces become blended or blurred. With this background, the article explores the need for new typologies of what is religious on the Internet and p...

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Published in:Religions
Main Author: Siuda, Piotr (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 6
Further subjects:B media and religion
B Online Religion
B online rituals
B religious influencers
B Digital Religion
B parody religions
B religion online
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