Abstract
Information Technology has penetrated nearly all aspects of our daily lives such that relationships associated with individuals and organizations are digitally enabled and mediated. Advances in IT have led to changes in the way religious worship has traditionally been done, ushering in a new age of worship that is augmented by or anchored on a digital platform. The paper aimed at investigating societal implications of IT use in religion and to better understand the ways in which IT affects modernization of religion in developing countries. The objectives of the paper were to establish the types of IT applications being used in religion, the co-existence of IT and religious tradition and how use of IT affects the future of religion. The study was conducted through a desk search. The paper concludes that religion and technology have had some form of inter dependence on one another, and therefore for modernization of religion IT will increasingly play an important role. Religion must adopt ways to utilize IT positively while shunning negative aspects that IT can be used for in religion such as propagation of fundamentalism and extremism through IT.
Highlights
Information Technologies have become widespread and have penetrated deeply into societies in developing countries
Definitions of religion vary, and most have a common characteristic of focusing on the communal aspect of religious practice, and they all emphasize on belief, faith, or the supernatural nature of religion [6] argues that religion is an attitude that consists of admitting the existence of a domain of reality that is sacred, supernatural, superior to visible reality, and on which this visible reality depends [10]
This study is a step towards providing information on the types of Information Technologies being used in Religion and how they are being used, and the benefits of using these Information Technologies in religion
Summary
Information Technologies have become widespread and have penetrated deeply into societies in developing countries. Definitions of religion vary, and most have a common characteristic of focusing on the communal aspect of religious practice, and they all emphasize on belief, faith, or the supernatural nature of religion [6] argues that religion is an attitude that consists of admitting the existence of a domain of reality that is sacred, supernatural, superior to visible reality, and on which this visible reality depends [10] This supernatural domain, Science Journal of Education 2017; 5(4): 144-149 referred to as the sphere of the divine, has been understood in many ways by different cultures and at different times. The nature of religion has been conceived differently, sometimes as totally distinct and separated from the material world in which humans live or transcendence, or conceived as intimately permeating the material world or immanence
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