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               14  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (23): 13-21, Summer 2020
               Introduction                          is    exchanged       by      the
               Your capacity for something is        Cyberspace  in  the  field  of
               your  ability  to  do  it,  or  the   personal communication and even
               amount  of  it  that  you  are  able   in media and mass communication.
               to do (collinsdictionary).
                                                     What  is  Religious  Education
               What  do  we  Mean  by                or Instruction?
               Cyberspace?                           In  secular  usage,  religious
               Cyberspace  Theory  in  all           education  is  the  teaching  of  a
               nomination  means  all  of  the       particular  religion  (although  in
               things which are related to the       England  the  term  religious
               computer and Internet.                instruction  would  refer  to  the
                  The  word  “cyberspace”  is        teaching  of  a  particular religion,
               credited  to  William  Gibson,        with religious education referring
               who  used  it  in  his  book,         to  teaching  about  religions  in
               Neuromancer, written in 1984.         general) and its varied aspects: Its
                  Gibson  defines  cyberspace        beliefs,    doctrines,    rituals,
               as  a  consensual  hallucination      customs, rites, and personal roles.
               experienced daily by billions of         In  Western  and  secular
               legitimate  operators,  in  every     culture,   religious   education
               nation, by children being taught      implies  a  type  of  education
               mathematical concepts.                which  is  largely  separate  from
                  A  graphical  representation       academia, and which (generally)
               of  data  abstracted  from  the       regards  religious  belief  as  a
               banks of every computer in the        fundamental tenet and operating
               human  system.  Unthinkable           modality,    as    well   as    a
               complexity. Lines of light ranged     prerequisite    for   attendance
               in  the  non-space  of  the  mind,    (collinsdictionary).
               clusters and constellations of data.
               (Berkley  Publishing  Group,
               1989: 128)
                  Today  in  the  world  a  great
               amount of data and information
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