Heidi Campbell's article Religious Communities and the Internet (2010) discusses the growing trends in religion online and online religion. One issue she discusses is the nature of sacred texts in an online format. She sees it more as a problem in Judaism than for protestant christians, who she says see technology as a God-given resource for spreading the Word.
This phenomenon raises some questions; can text on the internet be sacred? or does the 'Word' simply join the billions of other words that flood the internet everyday? Is the sacred inherently sacred? Can the sacred remain sacred when it is translated onto a non-sacred space? Does the message of the religion become lost in the novelty of the internet? Can spirituality be found online among the celebrity gossip, online shopping and pictures of cats?
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