Godwired

<p><em>Godwired </em>offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences like stories games and rituals are forms of world-building or cosmos construction that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is arguably patently religious.</p><p>This book examines:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>the nature of sacred space in virtual contexts</li> <li>technology as a vehicle for sacred texts </li> <li>who we are when we go online </li> <li>what rituals have in common with games and how they work online</li> <li>what happens to community when people worship online</li> <li>how religious worlds and virtual worlds nurture similar desires.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>Rachel Wagner suggests that whilst our engagement with virtual reality can be viewed as a form of religious activity today’s virtual religion marks a radical departure from traditional religious practice – it is ephemeral transient rapid disposable hyper-individualized hybrid and in an ongoing state of flux.</p>