Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internation

Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is r

Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionall

Often dismissed as "not serious", the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turne

Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is r