Religion and spirituality as posthuman games: creativity and the quest for ultimate immanence

Religion is, by its critics and adopters alike, usually regarded as a "serious" matter. It is related to matters of "ultimate concern" with regards to the relationship between humans and the divine. A posthuman epistemology of religion challenges many of these assumptions. In this presentation I will argue that a posthuman religion is much more susceptible to be understood as creative and playful. Firstly, it reimagines religion and spirituality not as primarily concerned with the "transcendent" or the "supernatural", but instead being a immanent, rhizomatic, and natural phenomenon. Secondly, it reimagines religion and spirituality not as primarily "human", but instead focused on more-than-human life-worlds and structures. Thirdly, it perceives those practices, beliefs, communities, words, sounds, and smells that we commonly think of as "religious" as creative elements of elaborate game design.