The avatar faculty

• Verfasst von: Snodgrass, Jeffrey G. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The avatar faculty
• Titelzusatz: ecstatic transformations in religion and video games
• Verf.angabe: Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
• Verlagsort: Oakland, California
• Verlag: University of California Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xviii, 262 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 16
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38435-4
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38436-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Avatar <Informatik> / (s)Computerspiel / (s)Ekstase
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Snodgrass, Jeffrey G: Avatar faculty. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Snodgrass, Jeffrey G.: The avatar faculty. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource
• K10plus-PPN: 1813132747

Abstract

"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 impact health and well-being"--