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“Thanks to the Virgin”: Online Votive Offerings and Digital Religion in the Baroque Era

  • Carlos Nazario Mora Duro

This article analyzes online votive offerings as a phenomenon of digital religion, in which the sacred is transferred and adapted to the virtual realm to participate in online user conversations. Virtual altarpieces manifest as forms of entertainment, self-representation, mockery, and social criticism, which emphasizes their communicative nature, their status as both individual and collective documents, as well as their popular and potentially transgressive orientation. This transgression is not limited to popular participation but also points to a devotional shift toward a secular reinterpretation of religious images. The analysis draws on Baroque modernity, emphasizing the adaptive and subversive reinvention of cultural symbols, as well as the notion of lived religion, to understand how the religious and the everyday intertwine in the digital context.