From Slate:
“There are two different notions of what ‘sacredness’ means,” observes Tom Boellstorff, a digital media and Islam scholar at University of California, Irvine. Something can be sacred because it has been touched or created by the divine. Or, sacredness can come from feeling a connection that brings a worshipper closer to divinity, such as the recitation of a liturgy. Digital religious practice could give a sense of the latter to some, but not the former.

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