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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2017]
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Gregory Price Grieve, Cyber Zen] (2017) (Prohl, Inken, 1965 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Media, religion and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Second Life
/ Zen Buddhism
/ Religious identity
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| IxTheo 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 |
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| Item Description: | Mit 3 Glossaren und 1 Register Literaturverzeichnis Seite 233-249 (Seite 233 ungezählt) |
| Physical Description: | xii, 265 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415628717 |