An Information Technology Surrogate For Religion: The Veneration Of Deceased Family In Online Games (Contemporary Religion And Popular Culture)

This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.

• • Author: W. Bainbridge
• • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• • Publication Date: Nov 21, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 143 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137490543
• • ISBN-13: 9781137490544