Members

Gregory Grieve
University of North Carolina Greensboro
http://www.gpgrieve.org/
Research interests: Ludic evil, theories and methods of video gaming, values, religion

Lisa Kienzl
University of Bremen
http://www.lisakienzl.com/
Research interests: Religion, gender, identity, nation(alism), gaming cultures, media anthropology, historical anthropology

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
University of Bremen
https://www.uni-bremen.de/religionswissenschaft/personen/prof-dr-kerstin-radde-antweiler
Research interests: Religion in video gaming, value formations, mediatization, gender

Jere Kyyrö
University of Turku
https://www.utu.fi/en/people/jere-kyyro
Research interests: Representations of Culture and Religion; RPG’s; Strategy Games; Game Mechanics

Simone Baldetti
University of Pisa
Research interests: Law, religion and Gaming, Religious Cultural Heritage and Gaming

Heidi Rautalahti
University of Helsinki, Aalto University
Research interests: Non-religion and meaningful gaming px, meaningful (purposeful/bizarre) encounters with games

Jane Skjoldli
University of Stavanger
https://www.uis.no/en/backtoblood
Research interests: Theory, method; Virtual material culture; Interaction, Interfaces, immersion

Kathrin Trattner
University of Bremen
https://www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/das-zemki/mitglieder/
mitglieder/mitgliedsprofil/kathrin-trattner

Research interests: gaming, religion, nation(alism), race, gender, gamer communities, intersectionality

James Nobles
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Research interests: Ethics and theology of RPGs

Allan Macedo de Novaes
Adventist University of Sao Paulo
Research interests: Seventh-day Adventism and gaming; religion and board games; religious education and gaming; gamebooks

Dom Ford
University of Bremen
https://domford.net/
Research interests: Myth and games, digital game communities, history and games, monsters, heroism

Daniel Grayson
Cambridge Theological Federation / University of Durham
Research interests: Christian theology, spirituality, and video games

Jieyu (Warren) Liu
New York University
Research interests: Video games under Chinese culture, Video games produced in China

Edward Watson
Yale University
Research interests: Christian doctrine, conceptualization, theology of gaming, race and sexuality

Brandon (ziran) Zhao
Monash University
Research interests: Player culture, game platforms, digital ethnography

Tara Smith
University of Sydney
Research interests: Religion, Gaming, Science fiction, Tabletop

Taylor Thomas
Boston University
https://www.bu.edu/sth/profile/taylor-thomas/
Research interests: Virtue cultivation, moral agency, bias-reduction, ethics

Shubham Singh Chauhan
University of Delhi
Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics & Logic

Anita Cloete
Stellenbosch University
Research interests: Religion and Media, Youth culture Technology and Ethics

Philipp Wehage
University Heidelberg
Research interests: Thanatology, Hermeneutics of Images, Visual Culture, Popular Iconografies

Mathew Martin
University of Mumbai and AYJNISHD(D) Mumbai
Research interests: Multimodal communication, Communication, Disability Communication, Religious Communication, Visual Communication, Sign Language

Jerry Joseph Onampally
University of Mumbai
Research interests: Religious Communication in Virtual Space, Christianity and Video Gaming

David Dockery
Texas A&M University
Research interests: Myth and video games, religious symbols in games