Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship
The modern culture of entertainment is performed across diverse practices and institutions - from Disney to gaming, Hollywood to tourism, museums to commercial consumption - and it prizes being physically and affectively caught up' in forms of play that transport participants away from everyda...
| Subtitles: | Thematic Forum on Digital Scholarship and the Critical Study of Religion. Guest editor: James S. Bielo |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2018]
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-301 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Shared virtual environments (Virtual reality)
/ Materiality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
social life of scriptures
B Tourism B Material Religion B Pilgrimage B Anthropology B digital scholarship |
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| Summary: | The modern culture of entertainment is performed across diverse practices and institutions - from Disney to gaming, Hollywood to tourism, museums to commercial consumption - and it prizes being physically and affectively caught up' in forms of play that transport participants away from everyday reality. Defined in immersive terms, entertainment is pervasive and ideologically compelling. This article explores an analogous relationship between this ubiquitous culture of entertainment and digital scholarship in the critical study of religion. The central case study is an ethnographic and archival project, Materializing the Bible, which examines the social life of scriptures, religious tourism, and processes of material religion. I argue that immersion is a shared imperative between this project of digital scholarship and the empirical phenomenon it seeks to understand. As a contribution to this special issue, the article illustrates how the affordances of working with a digital platform intersect with a theoretical commitment to better understand the relationship between religion and entertainment. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1445074 |