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Game Spirituality: How Games Tell Us More Than We Might Think, Chad Carlson
Game Spirituality: How Games Tell Us More Than We Might Think, Chad Carlson
Faculty Publications
While we often see games as less serious or at least less transcendental than religion there is reason to believe that games can evoke similarly meaningful narratives that allow us to learn a great deal about ourselves and our world. And games do so often using the same symbolic and metaphorical mechanisms that generate meaning in religious experience. In this paper, I explore some of the ways in which game myths—the myths created from and through games—generate meaning in our lives. People experience myths in games very similarly to how they might in religion. I first explain what myth means …
Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Faculty Publications
Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That the Public Loved is an article concerning the private zoo in Holland, Michigan, that was owned by Chicago coal merchant George Fulmer Getz and helped form the Illionois based Brookfiekd Zoo and John Ball Zoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan.