The Avatar Faculty Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games.
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 ou...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of California Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Ser.
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