The Sacred & the Digital. Critical Depictions of Religions in Video Games

The Sacred & the Digital. Critical Depictions of Religions in Video Games

Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is rather neglected, both by game scholars and religion scholars. While religion can take different shapes in digital games, ranging from materi...

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Main Author: Bosman, F.G. (Frank) (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
Subjects:
imaginary worlds
play
Isaac
criticism of religion
games and religion studies
American history
football videogames
cults
new religious movements
subcreation
ritual practices
Ethos
digital games
stereotypes
child abuse
game-immanent
religious studies
Assassin's Creed
game mechanics
Dishonored
secular
science
religious violence
moral decision making
fundamentalism
video games
occulture
critique of religion
game
religion in games
Bible
religion studies
Western esotericism
transmedial worlds
science fiction
studies
sacred
paranormal
Mythos
karma
Fallout 3
video game
religion criticism
theology
religion
contemplation
game studies
post-apocalypse
transmedia storytelling
content analysis
transmediality
game worlds
society for psychical research
Catholicism
Horizon: Zero Dawn
storyworlds
Evangelicalism
world-building
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