Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life

By Gregory Price Grieve

Cyber 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? Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both a product of and authentic response to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415628733
• ISBN13: 9780415628730
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"