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Download or read book EGods written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Bainbridge contends that the worlds of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games provide a new perspective on the human quest, one that combines the arts and simulates most aspects of real life. The quests in gameworlds also provide meaning for human action, in terms of narratives about achieving goals by overcoming obstacles.
Download or read book eGods written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred? In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of virtual gameworlds takes an in-depth look at the fantasy religions of 41 games and arrives at some surprising conclusions. William Sims Bainbridge investigates all aspects of the gameworlds' religious dimensions: the focus on sacred spaces; the prevalence of magic; the fostering of a tribal morality by both religion and rules programmed into the game; the rise of cults and belief systems within the gameworlds (and how this relates to cults in the real world); the predominance of polytheism; and, of course, how gameworld religions depict death. As avatars are multiple and immortal, death is merely a minor setback in most games. Nevertheless, much of the action in some gameworlds centers on the issue of mortality and the problematic nature of resurrection. Examining EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Rift, World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and many others, Bainbridge contends that gameworlds offer a new perspective on the human quest, one that combines the arts, simulates many aspects of real life, and provides meaningful narratives about achieving goals by overcoming obstacles. Indeed, Bainbridge suggests that such games take us back to those ancient nights around the fire, when shadows flickered and it was easy to imagine the monsters conjured by the storyteller lurking in the forest. Arguing that gameworlds reintroduce a curvilinear model of early religion, where today as in ancient times faith is inseparable from fantasy, eGods shows how the newest secular technology returns us to the very origins of religion so that we might "arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
Book Synopsis Svensk-engelsk ordbok by : Carl Gustaf Björkman
Download or read book Svensk-engelsk ordbok written by Carl Gustaf Björkman and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Proteus Paradox written by Nick Yee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology
Book Synopsis The Warcraft Civilization by : William Sims Bainbridge
Download or read book The Warcraft Civilization written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft as a virtual prototype of the real human future. World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW is an immersive virtual world in which characters must cope in a dangerous environment, assume identities, struggle to understand and communicate, learn to use technology, and compete for dwindling resources. Beyond the fantasy and science fiction details, as many have noted, it’s not entirely unlike today’s world. In The Warcraft Civilization, sociologist William Sims Bainbridge goes further, arguing that WoW can be seen not only as an allegory of today but also as a virtual prototype of tomorrow, of a real human future in which tribe-like groups will engage in combat over declining natural resources, build temporary alliances on the basis of mutual self-interest, and seek a set of values that transcend the need for war. What makes WoW an especially good place to look for insights about Western civilization, Bainbridge says, is that it bridges past and future. It is founded on Western cultural tradition, yet aimed toward the virtual worlds we could create in times to come.
Book Synopsis Paranormal America (second Edition) by : Christopher D. Bader
Download or read book Paranormal America (second Edition) written by Christopher D. Bader and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, the authors reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America. Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees."--Provided by publisher.
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Download or read book Gods of Manhattan written by Scott Mebus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old New Yorker Rory Hennessy can see things no one else can. When a magician's trick opens his eyes to Mannahatta, Rory finds an amazing spirit city coexisting alongside modern-day Manhattan. A place where Indian sachems, warrior cockroaches, and papier-mƒch‚ children live, ruled by the immortal Gods of Manhattan - including Babe Ruth, Alexander Hamilton, and Peter Stuyvesant. But Rory's power to see Mannahatta brings danger, and he is pursued by enemies, chasing history and trying to free those who have been enslaved. And when he is given the chance to right Mannahatta's greatest wrong, seeing Mannahatta may not be a gift after all. . . .
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Book Synopsis Hippopotamus Pool by : Elizabeth Peters
Download or read book Hippopotamus Pool written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Hippopotamus Pool a legend? Or Amelia's nemesis! A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queens' lost tomb - and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archaeologist husband Emerson are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he can tell them his secret, the Peabody-Emersons sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped - and hampered - by their teenage son Rameses, and beautiful ward Nefret. Before the sands of time shift very far, all of them will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. off once again on a rollicking adventure involving archaeology, murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers and ancient curses. And the hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type - a nefarious, overweight art dealer who is on course to become her new arch-enemy!
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Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 2766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station by : Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N.C.)
Download or read book Publications of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station written by Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Investigation of Waste Water Leakage in Centrifugal Pumps by : David J. Conant
Download or read book An Investigation of Waste Water Leakage in Centrifugal Pumps written by David J. Conant and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOLS IN WASHTENAW COUNTY ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNITY PLAN. by : CLAIR KETCHAM SEARLES
Download or read book THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOLS IN WASHTENAW COUNTY ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNITY PLAN. written by CLAIR KETCHAM SEARLES and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virtually Sacred by : Robert M. Geraci
Download or read book Virtually Sacred written by Robert M. Geraci and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games and virtual worlds can rearrange or replace religious practice as designers and users collaborate in the production of a new spiritual marketplace. Using 'World of Warcraft' and 'Second Life' as case studies, this book shows that many residents now use virtual worlds to reimagine their traditions and work to restore them to 'authentic' sanctity or replace religious institutions with virtual world communities that provide meaning and purpose to human life.
Book Synopsis The Retail Clothing Store by : Donald Claybourne Crowder
Download or read book The Retail Clothing Store written by Donald Claybourne Crowder and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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