It is the fifth and final year of AAR’s religion and videogame seminar and we would like to get your support for turning the seminar into a unit. If you could sign this petition of support by Dec 10, we would greatly appreciate it.
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As a biblical scholar, I see so many relations between video games and the Bible, which are worth to discuss at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting every year!
Currently working on new ritual practices, I would be particularly interested in the existance of a new unit at AAR on Religion and videogaming. This is an ideal field for studying the processes underlying the creation of new ritual forms, and the emergence of new modes of medaiated religious experience.
I think this unit can be justified by the quality of its contributions to the academic study of religion, but look as well at the larger economic and cultural footprint of video games (industry claims 138 billion dollars revenues annually), the growth of eSports on college campuses, and the attendant possibilities for academic programs. All warrant sustained attention from the AAR.
Video games are on their way to becoming the most significant cultural-entertainment force in the world. If religious scholars do not start taking it seriously now, we will find ourselves left behind and irrelevant as a discipline.
Video Games are important cultural media that make use of, comment on, and advance theological ideas, and shape religious and moral imaginations.
I don't know you guys or your school, I found this on the internet, but "religion and videogames" sounds like a highly worthwhile, out-of-the-box and perhaps very necessary academic topic.
Greg taught me more than most other professors. I trust him to do something great with this.
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It is the fifth and final year of AAR’s religion and videogame seminar and we would like to get your support for turning the seminar into a unit. If you could sign this petition of support by Dec 10, we would greatly appreciate it.
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PhD Candidate, University of Virginia * It is important for academic organizations like the AAR to support the study of video games. Video games are now played by over a billion people. Studying video games should be understood to be just as professionally legitimate as studying film or sports.
As a biblical scholar, I see so many relations between video games and the Bible, which are worth to discuss at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting every year!
Currently working on new ritual practices, I would be particularly interested in the existance of a new unit at AAR on Religion and videogaming. This is an ideal field for studying the processes underlying the creation of new ritual forms, and the emergence of new modes of medaiated religious experience.
I think this unit can be justified by the quality of its contributions to the academic study of religion, but look as well at the larger economic and cultural footprint of video games (industry claims 138 billion dollars revenues annually), the growth of eSports on college campuses, and the attendant possibilities for academic programs. All warrant sustained attention from the AAR.
Video games are on their way to becoming the most significant cultural-entertainment force in the world. If religious scholars do not start taking it seriously now, we will find ourselves left behind and irrelevant as a discipline.
Video Games are important cultural media that make use of, comment on, and advance theological ideas, and shape religious and moral imaginations.
I don't know you guys or your school, I found this on the internet, but "religion and videogames" sounds like a highly worthwhile, out-of-the-box and perhaps very necessary academic topic.
Greg taught me more than most other professors. I trust him to do something great with this.
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PhD Candidate, University of Virginia * It is important for academic organizations like the AAR to support the study of video games. Video games are now played by over a billion people. Studying video games should be understood to be just as professionally legitimate as studying film or sports.