Intuitions about the Digitability of Religion among Transnationally Rooted Digital Natives in Switzerland: Belief as a Decision Tree and the (Ir)relevance of Religious Community Experience
This article presents positions on the digitability of religion as they are lived and reasoned about by digital natives who claim to be religious, spiritual, and/or searching and curious in this regard. Data were collected through explorative participant observations and semistructured interviews wi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2024, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 236-261 |
| Further subjects: | B
Participant Observation
B digitability B digital natives B Digital Religion B Religiosity |
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| Summary: | This article presents positions on the digitability of religion as they are lived and reasoned about by digital natives who claim to be religious, spiritual, and/or searching and curious in this regard. Data were collected through explorative participant observations and semistructured interviews with digital natives with transmigratory biography elements in Switzerland. Examples of the borders that interlocutors drew between digitable and nondigitable aspects of religion are also presented to provide an overview of the emic assumptions about the possibilities and limits of religious digitability in the field. The analysis revealed that digital natives tended to see almost all aspects of religion but not all aspects of the religious community experience as digitable, and sometimes value the nondigitability of certain nuances of community explicitly. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10111 |