Hyper-Ritualitas : antara Determinisme Teknologi dan Hindu Nusantara

Hari Harsananda (Universitas Hindu Negeri I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar)

Sanjiwani: Jurnal Filsafat
Vol 12 No 1 (2021)

The world is entering the post-modern era with the Covid-19 pandemic has further strengthened the existence of technology in the world. Technological developments are increasingly advanced, penetrating other cultural elements, including the religious system. Technological determinism forms a “simulacra” that turns ritual into hyper-rituality. Rituals formed artificially through the internet network. Hindu Nusantara has a formulation in the form of Mantras, Mudra, Aksara, Mandala, Yantra and Kala which is a reason, that technological determinism that makes Hyperituality is actually a process of reducing the spiritual values ​​of a religious ritual.