Le numérisme : un objet religieux ? Problématisation et notes théoriques

Abstract

For the most part, studies on the relationship between religion and digital can be grouped under the theme Digital Religion. Without being totally foreign to it, the phenomenon we are interested in here seems to be of a different order. Rather than ‘digitized religion’, we are confronted with what we might understand as a quest for digital meaning. Some authors who have described this technological religiosity argue that it serves to legitimize the belief in a new society. The study of what we have called ‘digitization’ would therefore be based on the sacralization of a set of techno-values, of which the internet would be both the tool of broadcast and the main symbolic object. If we recognize that religion has something to do with society’s idea of itself, we can ask ourselves whether the digital revolution, by generating a new type of society, does not contain a religious dimension.