Liquid Salvation: The Game of Religion and Contemporary Culture
What role does religion play in our highly mediated, global, consumer culture? How do these contemporary religious manifestations differ from traditional forms, and from religion in “solid modernity?” HSS 206 introduces you to religion in contemporary culture. Utilizing the notion of worldview, we look at religion in its experiential, mythic, doctrinal, ethical, ritual and social dimensions. We use the category of liquid life to understand how these religious dimensions are manifested in contemporary culture’s selves, relationships and communities. To gain hands-on knowledge we will play, and help create, “Liquid Salvation: The Game of Religion and Contemporary Culture.” Much of this process will be centered on ethnographic research of religious communities in the online virtual world of Second Life.
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