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Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality de Rachel Wagner

Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality: Media, Religion and Culture

Autor Rachel Wagner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2011
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415781459
ISBN-10: 0415781450
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Media, Religion and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Walkthrough  2. The Stories We Play: Interactivity And Religious Narrative  3. The Games We Pray: What Is This Ritual-Game-Story Thing?  4. The Other Right Here: In Search of the Virtual Sacred  5. Me, Myself and Ipod: Hybrid, Wired and Plural Selves  6. God-Mobs: Virtually Religious Community  7. What You Play is What You Do? Procedural Evil and Videogame Violence  8. Xbox Apocalypse: Video Games, Interactivity and Revelatory Literature  9. Making Belief: Transmedia and the Hunger for the Real  10. Expansion Pack

Recenzii

'Godwired is a timely, relevant, and sophisticated book. It is an insightful, well-informed discussion of game theories, storytelling, and the religious imagination, offering a convincing argument about how playing games can, at times, participate in the construction of worlds, and worlds of meaning.' – Gary Laderman, Emory University, USA
'Rachel Wagner explores the intersection of the two other-worlds known to human beings; the supernatural world of the spiritual, and the virtual world created by on-line communication technologies. In doing so, she brings new light to scholarship in both religious studies and new media studies, both of which can profit from her research in this book. It is a fascinating study that is sure to provoke further discussion.' – Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin, USA
'Wagner goes far beyond simply demonstrating the presence of something the religious scholar would recognize in games, web sites, and Second Life. She helps us understand the religious and theological implications of the emerging media culture and identify as well as understand the locations of the religious impulse within it. […] Readable and teachable, the book holds clear promise to advance the emerging discourse on religion and virtual reality.' – Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, USA in Religious Studies Review
 
 

Descriere

This lively new book explores the way religious practice is changing in the digital age, and investigates the nature of sacred space, technology as a vehicle for sacred texts, who we are when we go online, how religious ritual works online and whether it is possible to gather for worship in online space.