cybersynagogue

From cyber- (prefix denoting cyberspace or the Internet) +‎ synagogue.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪbəˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪbəɹˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnəɡɒɡ
• Hyphenation: cy‧ber‧syn‧a‧gogue

cybersynagogue (plural cybersynagogues)

1. (Internet, Judaism) A synagogue that exists only in cyberspace or on the Internet.

   Coordinate terms: cyberchurch, cybermosque, cybersangha

   • 2000, Wilfred Shuchat, “The Young and the Old Continued”, in The Gate of Heaven: The Story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal 1846–1996, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.: […] [F]or the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim by McGill–Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 330:

     Our cybersynagogue will soon be in the World Wide Web – surfing the Jewish world looking forward to the next 150 years.

   • 2003, Tsvi Bisk, Moshe Dror, “The Jewish Community in Cyberspace”, in Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 226:

     Synagogues, too, have undergone radical change over the past 2,000 years: from village synagogues, to urban synagogues, to suburban synagogues, to exurban synagogues, and now possible cybersynagogues. A cybersynagogue must address the three traditional functions of a synagogue: a house of assembly, a house of study, and a house of communal prayer.

   • 2010, Annabelle Mooney, quoting Anastasia Kafarlogka, “Has God Gone Global? Religion, Language, and Globalization”, in Nikolas Coupland, editor, The Handbook of Language and Globalization (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics), Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, part II (Global Discourse in Key Domains and Genres), page 333:

     One might have thought that virtual worship space was typical only of new religious movements, such as the First Church of Cyberspace […]. This is clearly not the case, as [Anastasia] Karaflogka notes the existence of / cyber-churches, cyber-sanghas, cyber-synagogues, and cyber-mosques, each giving the opportunity to its followers to be part of the 'community' when physical contact, for whatever reason, is not possible or desirable.

     A quotation from Anastasia Karaflogka (2002), “Religious Discourse and Cyberspace”, in Religion: A Journal of Religion and Religions, volume 32, number 4, Amsterdam, North Holland: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 283.

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