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Week One: Introduction
Virtual Religion and the Rise of a New Axial Age
Week Two: On Mimetics
The Mimetic Roots of Humanity
Week Three: Orality and Literacy
On the Co-Evolution of Religion and Communication Technologies
Week Four: The Virtual Self
Technology and Society: Four Approaches
The Virtual Networked Self
Week Five: Vulnerabilities of the Virtual Self
Demons of the Virtual Self
On Cyberpsychology and Virtual Therapy
Week Six: Distributed Agency and Identity
Distributed Agency
Week Seven: Telepresence and Virtual Ritual
On Telepresence and Extended Reality
Virtual Ritual
Week Eight: Distributed Cognition
From Distributed Cognition to Gen AI
Week Nine: AI Ethics
AI Ethics
Week Ten: AI Spirituality
AI Relationships
AI Spirituality
Week Eleven: On Ecclesiology
Virtual Ecclesiology
Week Twelve: On Mysticism
Virtual Mysticism
Week Thirteen: Virtual Theology
Our Reality as God’s Virtual Reality
Avatar Christology:
Week Fourteen: Eschatology
On Transhumanism
Teilhard and Transhumanism