The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #16

The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

280 pages paperback 2023

1 edition

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The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from ...

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