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Video Games and Religion: Apocalypse and Utopia


Video Games and Religion: Apocalypse and Utopia

This event took place on Thursday 19 November 2020. Following the event, contributors were invited to provide brief videos/podcasts summarising their papers, these are available below.

With the growth of scholarly interest in the religious and theological tropes encountered in video games, there is a developing awareness of the special valence of apocalypticism, millenarianism, and associated themes in video game narratives and gameplay. This virtual symposium invites academic explorations of the role of apocalypse and utopia in video games. We welcome discussions of a wide-range of approaches to ultimacy and cosmic destiny in video games. Topics might include, but are not limited to, analysis of narratives of apocalypse and utopia, eschatology broadly conceived, themes of final revelation deriving from religious scriptures and traditions, allusion to Edenic origins and Kingdom of God conclusions to history, epochal accounts of cosmic dissolution and regeneration, messiahs, antichrists and their cognates.

The full programme with abstracts is available here.

The full CfP in .pdf format is available here.

Madelaine Caritas Longman, ‘The Quest for Ontological Truth in Pokémon: Red and Blue’
Madelaine Caritas Longman, ‘The Quest for Ontological Truth in Pokémon: Red and Blue’
Matt Horrigan, ‘Apocalyptic Fictions, Thanatic Simulations: Videogames and the Figuration of Death’
Matt Horrigan, ‘Apocalyptic Fictions, Thanatic Simulations: Videogames and the Figuration of Death’
Robert Houghton, ‘There Will Be a Reckoning: Galactic Apocalypse as Endgame in Stellaris’
Robert Houghton, ‘There Will Be a Reckoning: Galactic Apocalypse as Endgame in Stellaris’
Isaac May and Spencer Wells, 'Anti-Nephi-Lehies in the Land of Zion: Latter-Day Saints and the Construction of Race in Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts'
Isaac May and Spencer Wells, 'Anti-Nephi-Lehies in the Land of Zion: Latter-Day Saints and the Construction of Race in Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts'
Shyam Sriram & William Chavez (Part II), ‘Apocalyptic Irruption into Aboriginal Culture: Mad Max’
Shyam Sriram & William Chavez (Part II), ‘Apocalyptic Irruption into Aboriginal Culture: Mad Max’
Shyam Sriram & William Chavez (Part I), ‘Apocalyptic Irruption into Aboriginal Culture: Mad Max’
Shyam Sriram & William Chavez (Part I), ‘Apocalyptic Irruption into Aboriginal Culture: Mad Max’
Taylor Weaver, ‘JRPGs and Apocalypse: Aliens, Evil and Christ Types’
Taylor Weaver, ‘JRPGs and Apocalypse: Aliens, Evil and Christ Types’

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