cyberworship

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noun

Religious ceremonies or services conducted online.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nouncyberworship (uncountable)
  1. uncountableReligious ceremonies or services conducted online.

    Since November 1997, of course, there have been efforts to establish cyberworship.

    2002, Bruce B. Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life, page 173
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    This was not mere reporting, however, but a means to facilitate ‘cyberworship’, with 20,000 visitors expected every day of the festival and in the region of two million ‘hits’ on these sites over the duration of the festival (Bannerjee, 1998, p.34).

    2001, Gwilym Beckerlegge, “Computer-mediated religion: religion on the Internet at the turn of the twenty-first century”, in Gwilym Beckerlegge, editor, From Sacred Text to Internet, page 229

    In this migration, a wide range of emerging practices of religion in the form of cyberchurches and other cyberworship has arisen to remediate existing practices.

    2012, William FitzGerald, Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance, page 122

Origin

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APA

cyberworship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworship

MLA

“cyberworship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworship. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberworship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworship.

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