Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : what playing with religion offers digital game studies / Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price Grieve -- Dreidels to Dante's Inferno : toward a typology of religious games / Jason Anthony -- Locating the pixelated Jew : a multimodal method for exploring Judaism in The Shivah / Isamar Carrillo Masso and Nathan Abrams -- The global mediatization of Hinduism through digital games : representation versus simulation in Hanuman : boy warrior / Xenia Zeiler -- Silent Hill and Fatal Frame : finding franscendent horror in and beyond the Haunted Magic Circle / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter -- From Kuma\War to Quraish : representation of Islam in Arab and American video games / V�it Sisler -- Citing the medieval : using religion as world-building infrastructure in fantasy MMORPGs / Rabia Gregory -- Hardcore Christian gamers : how religion shapes evangelical play / Shanny Luft -- Filtering cultural feedback : religion, censorship, and localization in Actraiser and other mainstream video games / Peter Likarish -- The importance of playing in earnest / Rachel Wagner -- "God modes" and "God moods" : what does a digital game need to be spiritually effective? / Oliver Steffen -- Bridging multiple realities : religion, play, and Alfred Schutz's theory of the life-world / Michael Waltemathe -- They kill mystery : the mechanistic bias of video game representations of religion and spirituality / Kevin Schut.