Rachel Wagner, Associate Professor of Religion, has book published November 8, 2011 – Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality

11/04/11

Contributed by Christine Haase

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:

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.

(Source: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415781459/)

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