The Christian religious communities and digitalization in Poland*

Abstract

t. Digitalization in contemporary times is a process permeating more and more clearly, or even appropriating individual and social life in its various dimensions. The presence of new technologies is also visible in the religious sphere, where it not only aids the evangelization processes, but also creates a space for communication, exchange, convergence, interactions as well as integration of the faithful. This article will present a way of functioning of the majority (the Catholic) community as well as the minority (the Pentecostal) community in the conditions of digitalization in Poland. Strategies of utilizing the digital tools will be shown, which were used in the aforementioned religious communities in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, together with their potential permanence in the period after the pandemic, thus their significance in shaping the religious life. The analysis will be performed on the basis of the qualitative research conducted within the project RECOVIRA