The Sacred in the Mirror of Digitalization: New Approaches in the Study of Comparative Religion

Abstract

Abstract: globalization through a critical review of traditional comparative religion, which is no longer capable of understanding religion as a shifting, networked phenomenon. The research highlights how religious symbols, rituals, and interpretations have become reproducible within interactive digital spaces, leading to the fragmentation of interpretive authority and the emergence of flexible, transnational religious identities. It calls for a renewal of tools for understanding and comparison by drawing on digital anthropology and the sociology of media, in order to approach religion as a transformative symbolic process inseparable from technology and communication.

Keywords: digital sacred, comparative religion, networked hermeneutics, religious symbols, religious identity, digital globalization, technological mediation.