The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #16

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

280 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from ...

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