Playing with religion in digital games / edited by Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price Grieve.
| Other author | Campbell, Heidi, 1970- |
| Other author | Grieve, Gregory P. (Gregory Price), 1964- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2014] |
| Description | ix, 301 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Digital game studies |
| Contents | Introduction : what playing with religion offers digital game studies / Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price Grieve -- Dreidels to Dante's Inferno : toward a typology of religious games / Jason Anthony -- Locating the pixelated Jew : a multimodal method for exploring Judaism in The Shivah / Isamar Carrillo Masso and Nathan Abrams -- The global mediatization of Hinduism through digital games : representation versus simulation in Hanuman : boy warrior / Xenia Zeiler -- Silent Hill and Fatal Frame : finding franscendent horror in and beyond the Haunted Magic Circle / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter -- From Kuma\War to Quraish : representation of Islam in Arab and American video games / Vít [S,HAC]isler -- Citing the medieval : using religion as world-building infrastructure in fantasy MMORPGs / Rabia Gregory -- Hardcore Christian gamers : how religion shapes evangelical play / Shanny Luft -- Filtering cultural feedback : religion, censorship, and localization in Actraiser and other mainstream video games / Peter Likarish -- The importance of playing in earnest / Rachel Wagner -- "God modes" and "God moods" : what does a digital game need to be spiritually effective? / Oliver Steffen -- Bridging multiple realities : religion, play, and Alfred Schutz's theory of the life-world / Michael Waltemathe -- They kill mystery : the mechanistic bias of video game representations of religion and spirituality / Kevin Schut. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013044778 |
| ISBN | 9780253012531 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253012449 (cl : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |