[Air-L] Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" on the topic "Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies' Perspective"

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler kerstin.radde at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Mar 19 01:53:46 PDT 2008


Hey everybody,

the special issue of the relatively new journal "Online -  Heidelberg
Journal of Religions on the Internet" on the topic "Being Virtually
Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies' Perspective" is now
available. Please see http://online.uni-hd.de.

The journal consists of the following papers:

Radde-Antweiler, K.:
Religion Becoming Virtualised. Introduction to the Special Issue on
Religion in Virtual Worlds.

Calleja, G.:
Virtual Worlds Today: Gaming and Online Sociality.

Martinkova, L.:
Computer Mediated Religious Life of Technoshamans and Cybershamans.

Stam, K. / Scialdone, M.:
Where Dreams and Dragons Meet. An Ethnographic Analysis of two Examples
of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).

Jenkins, S.:
Rituals and Pixels. Experiments in Online Church.

Kluver, R. / Chen, Y.:
The Church of Fools: Virtual Ritual and Material Faith.

Miczek, N.:
Online Rituals in Virtual Worlds. Christian Online Services between
Dynamics and Stability.

Radde-Antweiler, K.:
Virtual Religion. An Approach to a Religious and Ritual Topography of
Second Life.

Martinez-Zárate, P. / Corduneau, I. / Martinez, L. M.:
S(l)pirituality. Immersive Worlds as a Window to Spirituality Phenomena.

Robinson-Neal, A.:
Enhancing the Spiritual Relationship: the Impact of Virtual Worship on
the Real World Chruch Experience.

Bittarello, B.: Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and
Imagination.

Highland, M. / Yu, Gino:
Communicating Spiritual Experience with Video Game Technology.

Duridanov, L. / Simoff, S.:
'Inner Listening' as a Basic Priciple for Developing Immersive Virtual
Worlds.


I would be gratefull, if you recommend our journal and the possibility
to publication.

With best greetings from Heidelberg and a Happy Easter
Yours sincerly
Kerstin


SORRY FOR CROSSPOSTING!!


-- 
Dipl. Theol. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
SFB 619 Teilprojekt C 2
Institut für Religionswissenschaft
der Universität Heidelberg
Akademiestr. 4-8
69117 Heidelberg

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