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.
What is the appropriate way for a sceintific study on issues of spirit and spirituality? In a session organised by Ruah-Midbar in the annual conference of the Israel Soceity for the History and Philosophy of Sceince, six speakers from different disciplines dealt with this question.
This lecture deals with the ideational-ideological aspect of the transformatio processes in contemporary spirituality and religion following the rise of Cyber culture, via a study case: divination rituals (such as a Tarot cards' spread). In the shift of those rituals from the physical traditional space to cynerspace, I argue that a new rationale emerges - namely sanctified randomness.