Examining the “digital” as a challenge to one of the most traditional spheres of private and public life of Russians, the chapter is focused on institutional aspects of the religion digitalization in the theoretical frame of mediatization. Normatively, digitalization as such does not contradict the dogmatic teaching of any traditional for Russia religion, in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism theologically it is being considered as a neutral process with good or bad consequences depending on human will. Therefore, functionally digital technologies are seen by religious institutions as a shaping force, one more facility (channel, tool, space, network) for effective preaching while the core of religious practices still remains based on non-mediated interpersonal communication.
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Khroul, V. (2020). Digitalization of Religion in Russia: Adjusting Preaching to New Formats, Channels and Platforms. In The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies (pp. 187–204). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42855-6_11
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