Vom Radio in das Metaversum

Author(s)
Elias Haslwanter
Abstract

The relationship between Liturgy and Media is very complex and multi-layered.This paper looks at the beginnings of broadcasts of liturgical services on radio and television and recalls the brief but heated discussion in the 1950s, in which Romano Guardini and Karl Rahner, among others, rejected them with reference to arcane discipline. In the face of de facto success of liturgical broadcasts, the concept of intentional participation in worship by those not physically present was coined.The current pandemic has seen a significant increase in the number of church service broadcasts, livestreams, and other digital offerings. These, with their more and more interactive potentials, and the Internet’s progression into the metaverse raise numerous fundamental liturgical and sacramental theological questions. Many of these are not as new as they may seem.

Organisation(s)
Department of Historical Theology
Journal
Communio. Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift
Volume
51
Pages
287-297
ISSN
1439-6165
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14623/com.2022.3.287–297
Publication date
06-2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
603212 Liturgical studies
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Religious studies
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/vom-radio-in-das-metaversum(df9fe2f5-bdd9-42c0-bf6d-fe2bd142c1aa).html