Play, Game, and Videogame: The Metamorphosis of Play

The question, the Fragestellung, which drives this paper is, can football video-games be analyzed from a religious perspective? We can answer positively, at least, provisionally. First, in order to demonstrate our approach, we will take into account the different conceptions on play drawn along soci...

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Authors: Gil-Gimeno, Javier (Author) ; Beriain, Josetxo 1959- (Author) ; Sánchez Capdequí, Celso 1966- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 5, Pages: 1-16
Further subjects:B Play
B Game
B Religion
B football videogames
B ritual practices
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