How to Worship in the Metaverse: Religious Experience and the Affordances of a New Medium
Religions April 15, 2024 Marco Adria
The extent to which the metaverse will become a site for religious and spiritual experience depends on how the aims of users align with the new medium’s potentialities for action, or “affordances”. Affordances are formed as the social, technological, and contextual capacities of a medium are recognized and then enacted by users. This exploratory essay argues that the metaverse’s affordances,...