Non-religious Players Asking Big Questions: Video Game Worlds Affording Affinities of Meaningful Encounters.

The article examines player narratives on meaningful encounters with video games by using an argumentative qualitative interview method. Data gathered among Finnish adult video game players represents narratives of important connections in personal lives, affinities that the article analyzes as furt...

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Publicado en:Journal of Religion & Popular Culture Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 69 - 89
Autor principal: Rautalahti, Heidi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of California Press Summer2021
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