Published: 2023-03-26

Googlism – Man’s New “Religion” in the Digital Age

Karol Jasiński Logo ORCID
Section: Part One: Philosophy
https://doi.org/10.31261/PaCL.2023.09.1.06

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the main premises of googlism and to characterize the various ways of understanding it. The paper comprises two main parts: the first part presents the main elements of googlism (the doctrine, moral principles, the cult and the community), which makes it resemble a religion in its conventional meaning. However, it emphasizes that the similarity to a religion is only superficial since one crucial element is missing: the affirmation of a supernatural and personal Absolute and an existential, dynamic and holistic interpersonal relation between It and man. Sacralization and deification of a search engine can hardly be regarded as a constitutive element of a religion. The second part contains characteristics of googlism as a lay religion, with the sacrum reduced to natural aspects as a result of technology sacralization; a digital religion, that is, a technological space which favors the creation of new religious content and practice; the “new spirituality” of the man of the era of a digital revolution; and, finally, a “joke religion,” which is a parody of religious life.

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Jasiński, K. (2023). Googlism – Man’s New “Religion” in the Digital Age. Philosophy and Canon Law, 9(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.31261/PaCL.2023.09.1.06

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2024-03-27


ISSN: 2450-4955
eISSN: 2451-2141
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PaCL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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