由于人类社会进入了因特网时代,考察“信息技术对宗教文化的影响”这个难题具有重要意义。从理论方面看,这种考察有助于理解技术哲学研究中的“技术文化”问题;从实践方面看,这种考察有助于理解网上宗教社医(OFC)这类社会现实。本文首先对网上宗教社区进行了社会学和哲学视角的探讨,给出了OFC定义,从哲学的视角分析了信息技术对网上宗教社区的三种影响,在此基础上说明了信息技术对宗教文化的影响。
The discussion of the problem of "the influence of IT (information technology) on religious culture" reveals its importance as the world has entered Internet era. This kind of studies can enhance the understanding of "techno-culture" in context of techno-philosophy from the point of theory studies. Also, this kind of studies can develop the understanding about the reality like OFC(online faith community). The OFC is investigated from the perspective of social science and philosophy. Based on the definition of OFC, three kinds of influence of IT on OFC are studied and the general influence of IT on religious culture is explained in this paper.