This chapter examines whether VR can function as a space for worship despite lacking consecration. While reliant on material infrastructure, VR remains a social construct shaped by unknown ethical forces, raising concerns about its suitability for divine encounter. Virtual mediation replaces sacramental mediation, distancing believers from sacred reality and fostering depersonalization. As a social institution and cultural mediator, VR reshapes religious experience, language, and interaction, shifting worship toward abstraction. This challenges traditional sacred space and spiritual authenticity, questioning whether a secular, human-designed environment can truly facilitate a genuine encounter with the divine.

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Masters Behind the Machine

  • Enrico Beltramini

摘要

This chapter examines whether VR can function as a space for worship despite lacking consecration. While reliant on material infrastructure, VR remains a social construct shaped by unknown ethical forces, raising concerns about its suitability for divine encounter. Virtual mediation replaces sacramental mediation, distancing believers from sacred reality and fostering depersonalization. As a social institution and cultural mediator, VR reshapes religious experience, language, and interaction, shifting worship toward abstraction. This challenges traditional sacred space and spiritual authenticity, questioning whether a secular, human-designed environment can truly facilitate a genuine encounter with the divine.