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This forum explores themes emerging from the “Digital Technology and Online Spiritual Communities” workshop hosted by the SSRC in November 2024. The aim of this workshop—chaired by myself and Nabil Echchaibi of the University of Colorado Boulder —was to bring together leading scholars in Digital Religion Studies who are interested in the increasing reliance of…
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Over the last few centuries, there has been a general shift from hierarchical structures, which prioritize the needs of the community and empower leaders, to flattened structures, which focus on the needs of individuals and, consequently, empower individual agency. This can be seen in the shift from monarchy to republics or the change from the…
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In writing this essay, I posed two questions to ChatGPT and Gemini. In response to the first – Can technology be sacred?- both systems acknowledged the seemingly contradictory relationship between what is considered sacred and secular. At the same time, they noted that boundaries between the two are porous. To the second question – Is…
