%0 Journal Article %A Miczek, Nadja %D 2008 %E Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin %F heidok:8293 %J Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 03.1 Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies’ Perspective %K Ritual , Virtuelle Welten , Online Religion , Internet , Church of FoolsChurch of Fools , Ritual , Virtual Worlds , Online Religion , Internet %R 10.11588/heidok.00008293 %T Online Rituals in Virtual Worlds. Christian Online Service between Dynamics and Stability. %U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8293/ %X In the article ”Online Rituals in Virtual Worlds. Christian Online Services between Dynamics and Stability“ Nadja Miczek reflects on Christian ritual settings in two case studies analysing different Online Services: “Church of Fools” and “Second Life.” She thereby focuses on recent concepts of ritual theory, like Ritual Dynamics and Ritual Transfer and broaches the issues of invention, transformation and exclusion at different stages of ritual action.