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Digital afterlife and the spiritual realm / Maggi Savin-Baden.

By: Savin-Baden, Maggi, 1960- [author.].
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC artificial intelligence and robotics series.Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2022Edition: First edition.Description: xxvi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367564629.Subject(s): Immortality | Future life | Death -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 202.3 B14
Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction Chapter 1 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual realm Chapter 2 Religion and Afterlife Chapter 3 Impact of the digital on the bereaved Chapter 4 Digital Theologies and Death Chapter 5 Death Spaces Chapter 6 A Good Digital Death Chapter 7 Death and the Liminal Chapter 8 Symbols and Memorialization Chapter 9 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife Chapter 10 Digital Legacy Chapter 11 Ambivalence and Spectacle Chapter 12 The Final Cut References Glossary Index
Summary: "Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm explores the ways in which digital media and digital afterlife creation affects social and religious understandings of death and the afterlife. For many people digital afterlife and the spiritual realm largely remains an area that is both inchoate and confusing. This book will begin to unravel some of this bafflement"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction Chapter 1 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual realm Chapter 2 Religion and Afterlife Chapter 3 Impact of the digital on the bereaved Chapter 4 Digital Theologies and Death Chapter 5 Death Spaces Chapter 6 A Good Digital Death Chapter 7 Death and the Liminal Chapter 8 Symbols and Memorialization Chapter 9 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife Chapter 10 Digital Legacy Chapter 11 Ambivalence and Spectacle Chapter 12 The Final Cut References Glossary Index

"Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm explores the ways in which digital media and digital afterlife creation affects social and religious understandings of death and the afterlife. For many people digital afterlife and the spiritual realm largely remains an area that is both inchoate and confusing. This book will begin to unravel some of this bafflement"-- Provided by publisher.

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