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gpgreive@uncg.edu
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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…
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This essay examines the evolving intersection of technology and religion, focusing on how digital transformations shape institutional legacies of equity and inclusion for spiritual communities. By critically analyzing three crucial dimensions — digital inclusion, algorithmic bias, and environmental harms — I illuminate how technological futures will enhance and challenge forms of community in the digital…
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I would go so far as to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us..—Ursula K.…
