AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE FIRST WEBSITES WITH RELIGIOUS CONTENT IN ROMANIA

Abstract

In 2010, even though the official websites of the Romanian Orthodox Church were making progress - especially the websites of the Patriarchate, the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina and the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of Western and Southern Europe - they were still far from having the popularity of non-official or private religious websites such as crestinortodox.ro, calendar-ortodox.ro, resursecrestine.ro, sfaturiortodoxe.ro, razbointrucuvant.ro, ro.orthodoxwiki.org. As smartphone apps (iPhone and Android) have become more popular, the Bible, the Lives of the Saints and the Orthodox Christian calendar have been seen as sources of financial opportunity by some Romanian entrepreneurs, who have developed private websites and apps using religious content. My study analysis some of these main non-official and private websites, with an overview of the Christian Web in Romania in its early years.