Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Godwired : Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality, Paperback / softback Book

Godwired : Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality Paperback / softback

Part of the Media, Religion and Culture series

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

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 contextstechnology as a vehicle for sacred texts who we are when we go online what rituals have in common with games and how they work onlinewhat happens to community when people worship onlinehow 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.

Information

Other Formats

Save 9%

£39.99

£36.35

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information