The sacred & the digital : : critical depictions of religions in video games / / special issue editor, Frank G. Bosman.
Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is rather neglected, both by game scholars and religion scholars. While religion can take different shapes in digital games, ranging from materi...
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