Session: The Computer as the Carrier and Object of Contemporary Spirituality

A multifaceted and broad field of phenomena is created at the crossroads of the rise of digital culture and the religious realm. This conference session, held at a conference in 2006, indicates the initial directions formed in the study of this emerging fascinating field.
Four lectures and a discussion comprised this session, including five speakers (including Ruah-Midbar who organized the session):
Chair – Philip Wexler
1. Brenda Brasher, a major international scholar of the field of Internet and Religion (author of Give me that Online Religion), lectured on: “The Social Sources of Religion Online: Case Study Jerusalem”
2. Marianna Ruah-Midbar, the session’s organizer, lectured under the title: “Sanctifying Randomness – The Theological Imagination of Alternative Spirituality with Connection to Internet Technologies”
3. Boaz Huss, a scholar of current Kabbalah, lectured on “Online Kabbala”
4. Noam Seri lectured on Jewish-Religious responses to the Internet in Israel

Another session organized by Ruah-Midbar at the same conference was “On the Sceintificality of Studying Spirit” – see link below.