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The Pop Theology of Videogames. Producing and Playing with Religion

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dc.creatorde Wildt, Lars
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-05T11:37:53Z
dc.date.available2023-05-05T11:37:53Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractYoung people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to modern audiences. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book argues that developers of videogames and their players engage in a ‘Pop Theology’ through which laymen reconsider traditional questions of religion by playing with them. Games allow us to play with religious questions and identities in the same way that children play at being a soldier, or choose to ‘play house.’ This requires a radical rethinking of religious questions as no longer just questions of belief or disbelief; but as truths to be tried on, compared, and discarded at will.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463729864
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19415
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:9789048555130
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20597
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subjectVideogamesen
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectProduction Studiesen
dc.subjectConsumption Studiesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.titleThe Pop Theology of Videogames. Producing and Playing with Religionen
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBooken
local.academicbookseriesGames and Play
local.coverpage2023-05-05T13:38:47
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62224
local.source.volume8

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