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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Main Author: Rautalahti, Heidi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan 2021
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 69-88
Further subjects:B big questions
B adult players
B video game
B Finnish players
B argumentative qualitative interview method
B life events
B Enchantment
B Meaning Making
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