Digital religion studies. Exploring religious practices with emerging digital technologies

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Theology - Practical Theology, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: A study has been conducted to collect the opinion of digital religious teachers and students to find out the outreach of digital technologies for various temple services, rituals and extension services. Data has been analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results showed the interest, acceptance and amalgamation of digital technology into religion of candidates and teachers and the concerned literature confirmed the same. The participants in this study belong to different religions of the World. Digital religion is religion on digital media and also an amalgamation of all of the societal and cultural aspects of religion with all segments of the digital society. Digital religion studies analyses and discusses how different religious practices incorporated, absorbed and acknowledged digital technology into their religious lives. The main attention of the present article is, to explore religious practices with emerging digital technologies in contemporary culture. The present article provides an outline of the development of digital religion studies and some of the practical approaches usually applied in this area. Societal and cultural influence on digital technology and vice versa has been looked within the arena of digital and religious studies. Though digital religion study is an upcoming area, it is a unique research area with unfolding of extraordinary results.

Dr. M. Pratibha, M.A., M.Sc., PGDTE, Ph.D., is working as a Professor and Head of the Department at Mahaveer Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. She has 29years of teaching experience in India and Germany. Her area of specialisation in her Ph.D. is Computer Assisted Language Learning. She has Presented about 20 research papers in various national and International conferences. She has published 3 books and 16 papers in various international journals. Working as the BoS-Chairperson, designed a new syllabus for the enhancement of employable skills of Engineering students. She has been a Resource Person and Chairperson in different national and international conferences. Dr. Pratibha has also published chapters in international editions. She has conducted various seminars, symposia, webinars, FDPs, etc. She is working as editor and subeditor for International journals. Received an international award (Gold Medal) as an outstanding Faculty Advisor on 13th April 2017 at Rabat, Morocco International Conference in recognition and appreciation of Outstanding Activities for the IEOM Student Chapter at VJIT, Hyderabad, and Contribution to the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Profession. She has rendered her service to the community through Swachh Bharat and the other NGOs.