ИЗМЕЂУ СЛОБОДЕ САЈБЕР ПРОСТОРА И ЗАХТЕВА ЦРКВЕ: ПРИМЕРИ ИЗ НЕКИХ ЕВРОПСКИХ ДРУШТАВА.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic has introduced severe restrictions on movement and direct communication not only internationally, but also within individual countries, regions, cities, communities, and families. In this period, many religions, including those whose leadership did not previously consider the Internet an important area of religious activity, were compelled by circumstances to actively use it, one way or another. This applied to both religious and church authorities, as well as ordinary believers. By utilizing the discussion possibilities of social networks, virtual presence at worship services in many cities and countries generally influenced believers not only of Christian denominations but also of other religions. In record time, the “Pandora’s box” of cyberspace was this way opened, while at the same time, the offline space was visibly limited. For the first time in all the centuries of the existence of Christianity in Europe, public religious activities against diseases (such as the plague, for example), which included public prayers, liturgies, litanies, and other religious ritual forms, were prohibited by the secular authorities, who defined such public religious manifestations to be in collision with effective pandemic measures and explicitly named them as obstacles to the efforts to prevent and treat the infection. Admittedly, the efforts of the authorities themselves were often administrative and political since they were not fully guided by scientific, medical, and related research. The suddenness of the appearance of a new virus, as well as the insufficient research of the pathogen itself could be taken as mitigating circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]