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Titolo |
Fictional Practices of Spirituality I : Interactive Media / / ed. by Leonardo Marcato, Felix Schniz |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023] |
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2023 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (476 p.) |
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Collana |
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Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; ; 262 |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I - Role- Play and Spirituality -- The Epiphany Experiment -- Play to Find Yourself -- The Hunter Will Take You -- Part IIa - Practice: Game Design -- Conjuring The Witch's Way -- Practicing Dying -- Part IIb - Practice: Research -- Exploring Applications of Videogame Magic through Tumblr's Pop Culture Witchcraft -- Where the Magic is -- Part IIIa -Videogames: Experience -- I Believe in Videogames -- Fittingly Violent -- Part IIIb - Videogames: Perspective -- Spes Ultracombinatoria -- Sacred Places and Spatial Design in Fantasy- themed Isometric cRPGs -- Franchised Esotericism -- Part IIIc - Videogames: From the East -- Ex Anankes -- "At the Same Time ... Both Truth and Fiction" -- Religion and Spirituality in NieR: Automata -- Part IIId - Videogames: The Case Study of Dragon Age -- Negotiating Spiritual Uncertainty through the Lens of Videogames -- Religion According to Bioware -- Light, Blood, Stone, and Order -- Part IV - Concluding thoughts -- Unlocking the Spiritual Potential of Games |
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Fictional Practices of Spirituality provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of videogames and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching practices. It features analyses of spirituality as gameplay facilitator, sacred spaces and architecture in |
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videogame geography, religion in videogames and spiritual acts and their dramaturgic function in videogames, tabletop, or LARP, among other topics. The contributors offer a first-time ever comprehensive overview of play-rites as spiritual incentives and playful spirituality in various medial incarnations. |
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