Cyber Zen: imagining authentic Buddhist identity, community, and practices in the virtual world of Second Life

Second Life: your world, your imagination -- Awake online: understanding Second Life's Zen path of practice -- Groups: relationships, cloud sanghas, and a cybernetic management style -- People: Buddhist robes, cyborgs, and the gendered self-fashioning of a mindful resident -- Place: cosmologica...

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Main Author: Grieve, Gregory Price 1964- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:[Rezension von: Gregory Price Grieve, Cyber Zen] (2017) (Prohl, Inken, 1965 -)
Series/Journal:Media, religion and culture
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Second Life / Zen Buddhism / Religious identity
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
Further subjects:B Religious Life Buddhism
B Second Life (Computer game)
B Internet users Religious life
B Identity (Psychology) Religious aspects Buddhism
B Second Life (Game)
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Summary:Second Life: your world, your imagination -- Awake online: understanding Second Life's Zen path of practice -- Groups: relationships, cloud sanghas, and a cybernetic management style -- People: Buddhist robes, cyborgs, and the gendered self-fashioning of a mindful resident -- Place: cosmologicalization, spiritual role play, and a third place Zendo -- Event: online silent meditation, virtual cushions, and the cybernetic steersman -- Mind the gap: screens, ontologies, and the far shore -- Theoretical tool box -- Second Life terms -- Buddhist terms
Item Description:Mit 3 Glossaren und 1 Register
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 233-249 (Seite 233 ungezählt)
ISBN:0415628717