Godwired : religion, ritual, and virtual reality / Rachel Wagner.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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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

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Print version: Wagner, Rachel. Godwired. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012

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September 26, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index.

Virtual reality > Religious aspects.

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