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Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life

Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life

Paperback

Series: Media, Religion and Culture

BuddhismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415628733
ISBN13: 9780415628730
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 9 2016
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both a product of and authentic response to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

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