Despite the fact that the medium is technologically capable of an infinite number of representations nowadays, video games still frequently resort to simplistic, ideologized and stereotypical portrayals of characters as well as virtual environments. Binary othering constructions of race, gender, national, cultural or religious identities are common modes of representation in any genre. I argue that in many instances religious identity as an excluding and marginalizing element only becomes visible in all its complexity when examined intersectionally, meaning in relation to other categories of difference. This article explores how religion can function as an element of othering in video game representations and how it appears as such in relat...
Videogames are an expressive medium. Much like with other forms for entertainment and popular cultur...
This article presents the ways in which Muslims and Arabs are represented and represent themselves i...
Players of videogames are talking about religion. Despite longstanding theories of Western religious...
Despite the fact that the medium is technologically capable of an infinite number of representations...
Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worsh...
Millions of people play video games every day, which makes the game industry among the biggest conte...
Despite theories of secularization, millions of video game players freely engage with fictional worl...
This thesis seeks to explore the commonalities between religion and video games, ultimately making t...
Many games play with religious symbols or construct symbolic universes to be understood as religi...
Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies...
In this article, the author proposes a multi-layered methodology for researching religion in video g...
This study is an analysis of religion in video games and makes the case that more formal work needs ...
This dissertation explores how Christian gamers expressed challenges to their identities after conf...
Modern religious plurality invites religious and non-religious people to navigate four interreligiou...
In an age of supposed secularization, millions of players are engaging daily with fictional worlds t...
Videogames are an expressive medium. Much like with other forms for entertainment and popular cultur...
This article presents the ways in which Muslims and Arabs are represented and represent themselves i...
Players of videogames are talking about religion. Despite longstanding theories of Western religious...
Despite the fact that the medium is technologically capable of an infinite number of representations...
Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worsh...
Millions of people play video games every day, which makes the game industry among the biggest conte...
Despite theories of secularization, millions of video game players freely engage with fictional worl...
This thesis seeks to explore the commonalities between religion and video games, ultimately making t...
Many games play with religious symbols or construct symbolic universes to be understood as religi...
Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies...
In this article, the author proposes a multi-layered methodology for researching religion in video g...
This study is an analysis of religion in video games and makes the case that more formal work needs ...
This dissertation explores how Christian gamers expressed challenges to their identities after conf...
Modern religious plurality invites religious and non-religious people to navigate four interreligiou...
In an age of supposed secularization, millions of players are engaging daily with fictional worlds t...
Videogames are an expressive medium. Much like with other forms for entertainment and popular cultur...
This article presents the ways in which Muslims and Arabs are represented and represent themselves i...
Players of videogames are talking about religion. Despite longstanding theories of Western religious...