Religieux et digital : nouvelles conceptualisations en mondes francophones
(2020) Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion — Vol. 67, n° 4, p. 505-518 (2020)
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- (en) The arrival of the Internet, and more broadly the generalisation of digital communication technologies, are bringing about a major change in our societies. Religion, like all reality, is transformed by this emergence. The conceptualizations of religion, based on a pre-web society, are becoming more fragile. The Internet questions their relevance, destabilizes their obviousness, and forces the social sciences to put the work of conceptualization back on the profession. Because the Internet and digital technology are shifting the lines of the social. They create new social and religious configurations, and in doing so, they are undermining conceptualizations that have become obsolete. Within this framework, this issue intends to examine the conceptualizations of the religious that are generated by the digital. The aim is to see how the social sciences apprehend the digital as an imperative of sociological re-conceptualization in order to think about the religious. It is not, of course, based in any way on the idea of a radical separation between the ‘real’ off-line world and the ‘virtual’ on-line world: on the contrary, it adopts a vision that sees the digital as a context of life and expression of social reality in its own right, in constant interaction with the rest of human and social experience. On the one hand, the religious crosses digital spaces, mobilizing them and provoking the metamorphosis and adaptation of their forms; on the other hand, digital communicational forms become places of incarnation and metamorphosis of religions.
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Douyère, D., Catellani, A., & Servais, O. (2020). Religieux et digital : nouvelles conceptualisations en mondes francophones. Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion, 67(4), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768620950212 (Original work published 2020)