religion, ritual, and virtual reality
Edición de la obra Godwired
| Autor | Rachel Wagner |
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| Editorial | Routledge |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | Abingdon, Oxon, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 266 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780415781442, 9780415781459, 9780203148075 |
| OCLC | 784949346, 727702531 |
| LCCN | 2011025265 |
| Serie | Media, religion, and culture series |
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Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or "cosmos construction" that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is, arguably, patently religious. This book examines: the nature of sacred space in virtual contexts; technology as a vehicle for sacred texts; who we are when we go online; what rituals have in common with games and how they work online; what happens to community when people worship online; how religious "worlds" and virtual "worlds" nurture similar desires. Rachel Wagner suggests that whilst our engagement with virtual reality can be viewed as a form of religious activity, today's virtual religion marks a radical departure from traditional religious practice -- it is ephemeral, transient, rapid, disposable, hyper-individualized, hybrid, and in an ongoing state of flux. - Publisher.