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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| 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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| Summary: | 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 con. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9780520384378 0520384377 |