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Gonzalez, Vincent.

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Born-Again Digital: Exploring Evangelical Video Game Worlds.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Born-Again Digital: Exploring Evangelical Video Game Worlds./
Author:	Gonzalez, Vincent.
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-01A(E).
Subject:	Philosophy of Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3633981
ISBN:	9781321141672

Born-Again Digital: Exploring Evangelical Video Game Worlds.
Gonzalez, Vincent.

Born-Again Digital: Exploring Evangelical Video Game Worlds. - 386 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Evangelical Christians have been creating video games for over thirty years, outpacing the efforts of all other religions. By the count that guides the present study, 773 games were made for religious audiences through 2010, of which 474 identify their affiliation as only "Christian," or "biblical." Like other artifacts of digital religion, these games allow us to see the entanglement of people's theological and technological universes. However, unlike many other aspects of digital religion, religious video gaming's novel artistic forms, cultural critiques, and theological possibilities largely blossomed beneath notice. Evangelical video game culture, thus, presents the creative production of a historically significant avant garde whose critical perspective has been neglected outside its own community. In particular, Evangelical video gaming transforms the concerns that connect it to other digital cultures - "violence," for instance, or "immersion" - by attending to the moral status of the player-in-play.

ISBN: 9781321141672Subjects--Topical Terms:

896987
Philosophy of Religion.

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