Can Social Media Replace a Suspended Rite?

Abstract

In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited important rites and the web became the place to fill the void. In March 2020, I started to conduct virtual fieldwork on this development from the perspective of what happened to the pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity of Vallepietra (Central Italy).

Keywords

• covid-19
• pilgrimage
• virtual compensation
• communitas
• devotional music