宗教的网络传播与信徒的群体认同

The religion's Internet Communication and the Believer's Group Identification

基于互联网技术形成的"虚拟教会"使宗教传播超越了种族、土地、权力等因素,为教义的传布、宗教仪式的举行以及教徒的精神交流提供了新的话语空间,建构了信徒群体认同的新路径。与此同时,互联网作为公共领域又成为多种宗教相互对话的场域,以及再现不同教义的布告牌,信徒由此拥有更多解读和选择信仰的自由。"虚拟教会"既把个人与群体连结成一体,又使信徒的群体认同呈现出异于传统宗教的特征,信徒之间的社会网络更加复杂,并处于不断的分化、聚合过程中。在此语境中,宗教边界淡化,宗教本身及信徒都发生了结构性变化。

The religion can communicate through the virtual church transcending the race, region and power, and there are new discourse spaces that the believers have gotten more path of Group Identification identity. As the public sphere, the interact becomes a field of different religions to communicate and the bulletin board of different doctrine, and the believers have more freedom of unscramble and select belief in the mean time. The Virtual Church not only cohesive the believers together but also make the group unique, the social network becomes more and more complex, and differentiate and associate constantly. In this context, the religion＇s border is desalinizing and the believers have structural changes.