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Cover
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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Playing with Religion Offers Digital Game Studies · Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price Grieve
Part 1. Explorations in Religiously Themed Games
1. Dreidels to Dante’s Inferno: Toward a Typology of Religious Games · Jason Anthony
2. Locating the Pixelated Jew: A Multimodal Method for Exploring Judaism in The Shivah · Isamar Carrillo Masso and Nathan Abrams
3. The Global Mediatization of Hinduism through Digital Games: Representation versus Simulation in Hanuman: Boy Warrior Xenia Zeiler
4. Silent Hill and Fatal Frame: Finding Transcendent Horror in and beyond the Haunted Magic Circle · Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
Part 2. Religion in Mainstream Games
5. From Kuma\War to Quraish: Representation of Islam in Arab and American Video Games · Vít Šisler
6. Citing the Medieval: Using Religion as World-Building Infrastructure in Fantasy MMORPGs · Rabia Gregory
7. Hardcore Christian Gamers: How Religion Shapes Evangelical Play · Shanny Luft
8. Filtering Cultural Feedback: Religion, Censorship, and Localization in Actraiser and Other Mainstream Video Games · Peter Likarish
Part 3. Gaming as Implicit Religion
9. The Importance of Playing in Earnest · Rachel Wagner
10. “God Modes” and “God Moods”: What Does a Digital Game Need to Be Spiritually Effective? · Oliver Steffen
11. Bridging Multiple Realities: Religion, Play, and Alfred Schutz’s Theory of the Life-World · Michael Waltemathe
12. They Kill Mystery: The Mechanistic Bias of Video Game Representations of Religion and Spirituality · Kevin Schut
Gameography
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