Spiritual Experience and Parishioners Satisfaction in the Online Eucharist: A Latin American Case Study

Abstract

This research contributes to the scarce literature that exists on the perception that Catholics have about the Eucharist online, which was continued through various digital platforms, but once the emergence of the COVID-19. In this way, the perception of Catholics is identified, regarding their spiritual experience, their satisfaction, and their intention to continue attending this type of religious practice in the future, but online. For this, a quantitative study was carried out through the PLS program with a sample of 1423 parishioners in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Bearing in mind that Latin America has the largest number of Catholics in the world, the results of this study help the Catholic Church to generate possible strategies that can be developed in various parts of the world, to combine this type of religious services with the various virtual platforms.

How to Worship in the Metaverse: Religious Experience and the Affordances of a New Medium

“…Mediation allows the user to be present in the virtual world. It therefore constitutes a hermeneutic process of making meaning (Areiza-Padilla et al 2022;Sbardeletto 2023).…”