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The Avatar Faculty - Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (Paperback)
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The Avatar Faculty - Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (Paperback)
Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, 16
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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.
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