Fictional Practices of Spirituality I : Interactive Media / ed. by Leonardo Marcato, Felix Schniz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marcato, Leonardo, Editor.

Schniz, Felix, Editor.

Series:

Edition Kulturwissenschaft Series

Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 262

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

9783839461921

3839461928

OCLC:

1409180772