Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse
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The current crisis has pointed out weaknesses and raised issues concerning the religious situation in the newly formed circumstances - in conditions of pandemic, war, isolation. The Internet with its growing influence on social patterns, and the metaverse as a proposed unique virtual world which is assumed to be the future in development of the global network, represent a new space for these challenges. Given that there is still no ethical consensus on virtual world issues, this paper discusses the possible implications of interactions in the virtual reality of the metaverse. Based on the current factual situation and assumptions, an analysis of the dichotomous relationship between the actual religious rites practice in the physical world and the expected virtual religious practice in the metaverse, was performed. Theoretical bases have been laid for further considerations of the influence of the metaverse phenomenon on religious behavior/practice, and on individual and social life, as... well as for considerations of the responses that religion should give to the topical, set challenges. It was concluded that under certain conditions the metaverse can be an opportunity to respond to some of the challenges that religious communities face.
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Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts, 2022Publisher:
- Institute of social sciences
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Institut za multidisciplinarna istraživanjaTY - CONF AU - Radovanović, Nebojša AU - Tomić, Bojan PY - 2022 UR - http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1644 AB - The current crisis has pointed out weaknesses and raised issues concerning the religious situation in the newly formed circumstances - in conditions of pandemic, war, isolation. The Internet with its growing influence on social patterns, and the metaverse as a proposed unique virtual world which is assumed to be the future in development of the global network, represent a new space for these challenges. Given that there is still no ethical consensus on virtual world issues, this paper discusses the possible implications of interactions in the virtual reality of the metaverse. Based on the current factual situation and assumptions, an analysis of the dichotomous relationship between the actual religious rites practice in the physical world and the expected virtual religious practice in the metaverse, was performed. Theoretical bases have been laid for further considerations of the influence of the metaverse phenomenon on religious behavior/practice, and on individual and social life, as well as for considerations of the responses that religion should give to the topical, set challenges. It was concluded that under certain conditions the metaverse can be an opportunity to respond to some of the challenges that religious communities face. PB - Institute of social sciences C3 - Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts T1 - Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rimsi_1644 ER -
@conference{ author = "Radovanović, Nebojša and Tomić, Bojan", year = "2022", abstract = "The current crisis has pointed out weaknesses and raised issues concerning the religious situation in the newly formed circumstances - in conditions of pandemic, war, isolation. The Internet with its growing influence on social patterns, and the metaverse as a proposed unique virtual world which is assumed to be the future in development of the global network, represent a new space for these challenges. Given that there is still no ethical consensus on virtual world issues, this paper discusses the possible implications of interactions in the virtual reality of the metaverse. Based on the current factual situation and assumptions, an analysis of the dichotomous relationship between the actual religious rites practice in the physical world and the expected virtual religious practice in the metaverse, was performed. Theoretical bases have been laid for further considerations of the influence of the metaverse phenomenon on religious behavior/practice, and on individual and social life, as well as for considerations of the responses that religion should give to the topical, set challenges. It was concluded that under certain conditions the metaverse can be an opportunity to respond to some of the challenges that religious communities face.", publisher = "Institute of social sciences", journal = "Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts", title = "Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse", url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rimsi_1644" }
Radovanović, N.,& Tomić, B.. (2022). Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse. in Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts Institute of social sciences.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rimsi_1644
Radovanović N, Tomić B. Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse. in Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts. 2022;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rimsi_1644 .
Radovanović, Nebojša, Tomić, Bojan, "Ethical and Religious Challenges within Metaverse" in Religion in the Global Crisis of Late Modernity (Annual International Scientific Conference), Book of Abstracts (2022), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rimsi_1644 .