Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or '¬Ücosmos construction'¬" that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is, arguably, patently religious. This book examines: the nature of sacred space technology as a vehicle for sacred texts who we are when we go online how religious ritual works online whether it is possible to gather for worship in online space. Rachel Wagner suggests that whilst our engagement with virtual reality can be viewed as a form of religious activity, today'¬"s virtual religion marks a radical departure from traditional religious practice '¬ ; it is ephemeral, transient, rapid, disposable, hyper-individualized, hybrid, and in an ongoing state of flux.