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Game studies have been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of influential methodological approaches that illuminate how and why video games shape the construction of religious beliefs and practices and also situates such research within the wider discourse on how digital media intersect with the religious worlds of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Call Number: 794.8 M592<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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