ABSTRACT
This chapter probes a number of ritual-anthropological fundamentals that are essential for any theological reflection on liturgical practices, whether online or offline. It focuses on those fundamentals that have raised concerns regard to digital worlds, especially the worshippers' embodiment, presence, and active participation. Exploring these ritual-anthropological fundamentals and the concerns surrounding them in their digitally mediated forms will reveal that merely applying established liturgical categories in their traditional configuration to the particularities of the digital age is inadequate. The chapter explores alternative, more appropriate approaches. At the same time, this exploration will show that although digitally mediated practices challenge established liturgical conceptions, these practices do not represent a "radical revolution", but rather the "transformation and reconfiguration of existing practices". Parsing these transformations and reconfigurations as they pertain to bodies, presence, and participation in digital mediation is the main task of the chapter.
