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The Avatar Faculty
- Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games
Engelsk Paperback
The Avatar Faculty
- Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games
Engelsk Paperback

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The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, meaning "standing outside oneself." The archaic techniques of promoting spiritual ecstasy, which remain central to religious healing traditions around the world, now also have contemporary analogues in virtual worlds found on the internet. In this innovative book, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass argues that avatars allow for the ecstatic projection of consciousness into alternate realities, potentially providing both the spiritually possessed and gamers access to superior secondary identities with elevated social standing. Even if only temporary, self-transformations of these kinds can help reduce psychosocial stress and positively improve health and well-being.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780520384361
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520384369
Udg. Dato:
10 jan 2023
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
10 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
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