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Freemasonry, Second Life and Virtual Worlds.
June 14th, 2008 by Ryan
The Age’s Digital Life section published an article, Second Life provides virtual classrooms on May 22nd, 2008. The article says that women in Freemasonry only exist in the virtual world…
UQ Studies in Religion lecturer Dr Helen Farley today said one of the first projects planned for UQ’s hall was a series of places of worship, including a mosque, synagogue, church, wicca circle and Freemasons Lodge that UQ Study of Religion students could visit.
“The idea is that we can send students in there to recreate some rituals or to do some role playing and the idea is to try and immerse them in these experiences,” Dr Farley said.
She said it overcame obstacles such as intruding upon people during prayer and gender restrictions.
Obviously if you’re a woman you can’t become a Freemason and so under normal circumstances a woman wouldn’t get to participate in Freemasonic rituals but that becomes possible in Second Life,” she said.
Read the rest of the story at The Age.