To date, older adults have received little attention in the newly emerging technological narratives of transnational religion. This is surprising, given the strong association of later life with spiritual and religious engagement, but it likely reflects the ongoing assumption that older adults are technophobic or technologically incompetent. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with older Sinhalese Buddhist migrants from Sri Lanka, living in Melbourne, this paper explores the digital articulations of transnational religion that arise from older migrants’ uses of digital media. We focus on how engagements with digital media enable older Sinhalese to respond to an urgent need to accumulate merit in later life, facilitating their temporal strategies for ageing as migrants. We argue that these digital articulations transform both the religious imaginary and the religious practices that validate and legitimize a life well-lived.

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数字媒体、老龄化和信仰：澳大利亚的斯里兰卡老年移民及其对跨国宗教的数字表达

迄今为止，在新兴的跨国宗教技术叙述中，老年人很少受到关注。考虑到晚年生活与精神和宗教参与密切相关，这一点令人惊讶，但这很可能反映了一种持续的假设，即老年人有技术恐惧症或技术无能。本文根据对居住在墨尔本的来自斯里兰卡的老年僧伽罗佛教移民的民族志访谈，探讨了老年移民对数字媒体的使用所产生的跨国宗教的数字表达。我们重点关注数字媒体的参与如何帮助年长的僧伽罗人满足在晚年生活中积累功绩的迫切需要，促进他们作为移民老龄化的临时策略。