LEADER 03417oam 2200565I 450 001 9910154706603321 005 20180505084158.0 010 $a1-315-64585-8 010 $a1-317-29325-8 010 $a1-317-29326-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315645858 035 $a(CKB)4340000000022993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4767461 035 $a(OCoLC)967742781 035 $a(BIP)59802869 035 $a(BIP)50097457 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000022993 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCyber Zen $eimagining authentic Buddhist identity, community, and practices in the virtual world of Second life /$fGregory Price Grieve 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (287 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aMedia, religion and culture 311 08$a0-415-62873-3 311 08$a0-415-62871-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSecond 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. 330 $aCyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century field of cybernetics. If, however, they are judged existentially, by how they enable users to respond to the suffering generated by living in a highly mediated consumer society, then Second Life Buddhism consists of authentic spiritual practices. Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both products of and authentic responses to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price Grieve illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion. 410 0$aReligion, media, and culture series. 606 $aInternet users$xReligious life 606 $aReligious life$xBuddhism 606 $aIdentity (Psychology)$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 615 0$aInternet users$xReligious life. 615 0$aReligious life$xBuddhism. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology)$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 676 $a294.3/44028566 676 $a294.344302854678 700 $aGrieve$b Gregory P$g(Gregory Price),$f1964-$0931790 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154706603321 996 $aCyber Zen$92141060 997 $aUNINA