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The Digital Watchmakers: Playing With The Sacred In Video Games, Anthony Langley Apr 2016

The Digital Watchmakers: Playing With The Sacred In Video Games, Anthony Langley

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With video games establishing itself as a multi-billion dollar industry, academia as a whole has been slowly looking at the medium as an object of study. The field of religious studies has also begun to take notice of it. At face value, this is a great a way to observe concepts of religiosity in a fairly new medium. In spite of this, the same questions are being asked. The first is how are the narrative of games depicting religious motifs? Secondly, what can we learn through the social interactions of people within a digital space about religion? Finally, how are …