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Does Digital Communication Encourage or Inhibit Spiritual Progress?
Citation (APA): Winston, D. (2014). Does Digital Communication Encourage or Inhibit Spiritual Progress? [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
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Does Digital Communication Encourage or Inhibit Spiritual Progress? By Diane Winston
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when Sister Catherine Wybourne’s Digitalnun [1] helped form a community of Benedictine nuns [2] in Oxfordshire, England, she knew they could not afford to pursue the order’s mission of hospitality.
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DIGITALNUN
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Wybourne, a former banker who is intrigued by technology, believed a virtual community could express “traditional Benedictine hospitality in contemporary form
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intrigued by technology, believed a virtual community could express “traditional Benedictine hospitality in contemporary form [3].” The sisters launched a website that dispenses spiritual teachings via podcasts and videos, hosts conferences, sponsors online retreats, offers a prayer line, and allows participants to “converse” with the nuns.
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BENEDETTINI DIGITALI
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the nuns embrace a worldwide community, many of whom would not have come to the monastery.
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WORLDWYDE
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unprecedented opportunities for laypeople to study and learn.
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MAX OPP
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The ability to pick and choose religious teachings without reference to religious authority or community
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AUTORITÀ
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Overcoming Binaries Up/ down, in/ out, yes/ no
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TITOLO
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That type of thinking propelled all too much of Western religious history— a sad and bloody tale of armed conquest and forced conversions,
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CONSEG. DEL BINARISMO
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The relationship between digital communication and spiritual progress is similarly a both/ and proposition. As Sr. Wybourne notes, the gift of layered, instantaneous, global communication affords new possibilities for spiritual engagement.
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PIÙ OPPORTUNITÀ PIÙ SFUMATURE
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Spiritual Progress
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TITOLO
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Spiritual progress entails moving toward a deeper experience and awareness of these intangibles. Spiritual progress can result from education or from experience; it can be collective or individual.
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DEF
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For others, spiritual progress is attained through study. Devout Muslims study the Qu’ran to grow closer to God,
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STUDI
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Digital Communication
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TITOLO
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The explosion of online resources offering seekers opportunities to experience nirvana, Enlightenment, transcendence,
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ANCORA OPP
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Occult knowledge is suddenly accessible, secret teachings clickable and esoteric teachings, formerly the province of trained masters, available to all.
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ESOTERISMO
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BeliefNet [10], Bible Gateway [11] and the Vatican website [12] are perennially popular.
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With so many options, the first obstacle that digital communication poses to spiritual progress is selectivity.
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COME SELEZIONARE
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Stig Hjarvard’s argument that media have assumed a key role in social orientation and moral instruction:
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‘In earlier societies, social institutions like family, school and church were the most important providers of information, tradition and moral orientation for the individual member of society. Today, these institutions have lost some of their former authority,
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MEDIA
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Elizabeth Eisenstein’s classic The Printing Press as an Agent of Social Change [15] chronicles the impact of Gutenberg’s invention on Western civilization, arguing that the printing press made possible widespread literacy, religious reform and modern science.
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ES STAMPA
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Contemporary scholars argue that the “logics” of digital communication— including individualization, commercialization and globalization— likewise
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INDIVIDUALISMO OMMERCIALI
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critici
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Individualization corrodes social ties,
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Although scholars and religious leaders once wondered [16] if virtual religion would undermine real-life religious communities, the contrary is true: Practitioners supplement their real-world religious affiliations with virtual activities, including study, journaling and prayer. Commercialization, too, is a complex phenomenon as Mara Einstein argues in Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial
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SUPPLEMENTO
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commercializzazione
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Mormons [18], Methodists [19], and Scientologists [20] have all launched major online campaigns to make their “product” more user-friendly. Ironically, such campaigns have the potential to reach seekers hoping to deepen their spiritual lives
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MEDIA
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The Digital Cosmos/ Chaos
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TITOLO
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caveat
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Its democratic nature can reinforce individualization to the detriment of community. Its openness challenges religious authority
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commercialization creeps in, if not from providers than from users.
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Jane Shilling’s, suggestion in The New Statesman [21] that digital access has transformed at least one aspect of spirituality -- self-examination -- from an essentially elitest pursuit to a democratic one:
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ESAME DI COSCIENZA
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Valerie Tarico’s belief that the Internet spells doom for organized religion [22]. Tarico argues that web content, highlighting the negative aspects of religious institutions, is a reason for diminishing numbers of adherents, at least in the US.
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INTERNET E LA PROP. ANTI REL.
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If you doubt that the same Internet that opens exit strategies for some opens new possibilities for others, a glance at Jim Gilliam's "The Internet is My Religion"
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la personalizzazione
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In “The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion [24] ,”Elizabeth Drescher writes, “At the end of the day, that is, it is not so much “the culture”—digital culture, secular culture—that is driving young people from churches, it is religious culture itself.”
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The challenges that beset us in this realm are not, primarily technological. They are personal. They are us. In the context of digital communications, indeed with regard to any instance of the New, spirituality is a heightened case of human activity, not a special class.
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TECNO SOPRAVV
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diario della morte di un padre
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Madrigal explains: "The document became a shared diary of their relationship with their father and each other," he writes: "its tiny movements intimate, its arc gutting.”
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Humans find ways to push meaning through the pipes."
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PUSH MEANING
