Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion

Introduction; Level up: Methods for studying video games and religion, Xenia Zeiler; Part 1: Textual and audiovisual narratives; 1 Critical discourse analysis: Studying religion and hegemony in video games, Kathrin Trattner; 2 Gaming elicitation in episodic interviews: Let's play baptism, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler; Part 2: In-game performance; 3 An ethnographic method for the study of religion in video game environments, Gregory Price Grieve; 4 Surreal impersonation, William Sims Bainbridge; Part 3: Production and design, 5 Design-based research: Mobile gaming for learning Jewish history, tikkun olam, and civics, Owen Gottlieb; 6 Phenomenological hermeneutics as a bridge between video games and religio-aesthetics, Mikhail Fiadotau; Part 4: Interactivity and rule system; 7 Empirical triangulation: Applying multiple methods to explore religion and myth through video games, Enrico Gandolfi; 8 Petri net modeling: Analyzing rule-based representations of religion in video games, Vit Sisler; 9 Qualitative in-depth interviews: Studying religious meaning-making in MMOs, Stef Aupers, Julian Schaap and Lars de Wildt; Part 5: Gamer-generated content; 10 Normalized social distance: Quantitative analysis of religion-centered gaming pages on social networks, Josef Slerka and Vit Sisler; 11 Coding comments on gaming videos: YouTube Let's Plays, Asian games, and Buddhist and Hindu religions, Xenia Zeiler; Critical reflection; 12 How to study religion and video gaming: A critical discussion, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler