From the Metaphysical Sanctıty to Virtual Reality: Digıial Religion

Year 2022, Volume: 10 Issue: 27, 253 - 278, 16.05.2022

Mustafa Alıcı

https://doi.org/10.31126/akrajournal.1052248

Cited By: 1

Abstract

It is seen that the phenomenon of religion comes to the forefront as virtual reality, as the internet becomes more and more globally widespread and has multiple systems with technological tools. In the postmodern age, its digital religion, which transforms everything into a virtual character, especially in the reality-virtual dichotomy, has gained the "ubiquitos" and "always accessible" feature. "Digital religion" or "e-din", as a unique spirituality field of the digital age, has been the most important indicator of the fact that the "updating" of religion in accordance with this age is the basic and essential form. Thus, digital religion operates in a "virtual realization" with a more eclectic definition in accordance with postmodernity. In this state, digital religion, as a cyber- cult, acquires a structure of "virtual accuracy" with its own authority in the virtual world with forms of spirituality such as cyber religiosity.

Keywords

digital religion, postmodernism, virtual reality, hermeneutics, internet

Metafizik Kutsallıktan Sanal Gerçekliğe: Dijital Din

Abstract

İnternet’in küresel açıdan gittikçe yaygınlaşması ve teknolojik araçlarla çoklu sistemlere sahip olmasıyla din olgusunun sanal gerçeklik olarak öne çıktığı görülmektedir. Postmodern çağda bilhassa realite- virtüalite dikotomisinde her şeyi virtüel karakterini baskın hâle dönüştüren dijital din, “her yerde bulunan (ubiquitos)” ve “her zaman erişebilen” özelliğe kavuşmuştur. Dijital çağın kendine özgü bir maneviyat alanı olarak “dijital din” veya “e-din”, dinin bu çağa uygun olarak “güncellenmesinin” temel ve asli form olmasının en önemli göstergesi olmuştur. Böylece dijital din, kendini postmoderniteye uygun olarak daha eklektik bir tanımla “virtüel bir realizasyon” içinde işlemektedir. Bu hâliyle dijital din, sanal bir kült formunda sanal dünyada siber dindarlıklar gibi maneviyat formlarıyla kendi otoritesine sahip “virtüel doğruluğa malik bir yapıya kavuşmaktadır. 

Keywords

dijital din, postmodernizm, sanal gerçeklik, Hermenötik, internet

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