Lab Media and Religion
The Media and Religion Lab is concerned with the interrelation between media and religions and their transformation. Thereby the perspective is a dual one: On the one hand side current as well as religious discourses and their authorities are shaped by media. On the other hand side religious practices are always also media practices and religious identities are always media identities likewise. So, actors respectively groups present, discuss and organise their religious perceptions through diverse media (books, pictures, videos, virtual worlds etc.). In this sense religion is a mediatized phenomenon that is necessary to be analyzed in respect of issues of media communication that accompany them.
ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford at Symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’ in Regensburg
ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been invited to give a talk at the University of Regensburg on ‘A World to Escape to: Gameworlds as Otherworlds in Datafied Society’ at the symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’, 11–12 April. About the event: Funded by the Vielberth Foundation and sponsored by the Leibniz (…)
9. April 2024
Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler: Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is currently a Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro. Since last year, UNCG has established an E-Sports Center (https://esports.uncg.edu/), which offers study programs as well as research on the topic of digital gaming. During her three-month stay, she will collaborate with the Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming (https://cas.uncg.edu/ncsv). The stay (…)
9. April 2024
Call for Applications: IASGAR Research Day
The International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion (IASGAR) and the Research Area Digital Gaming at the ZeMKI – Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research is hosting its third IASGAR Research Day. Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on media-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints (…)
17. March 2024
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at Symposium on Church History and Game Studies
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler takes part in a panel discussion at the hybrid conference “Church History and Game Studies? Explorations of Religion and History in Digital Games” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The conference is a collaboration between the Chair of Church History at the Department of Protestant Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt, (…)
3. March 2024
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion (2019)
Vít Šisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of (…)
28. February 2024
Lecture on Religion and Gaming by ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
On 23.04.2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is giving a lecture as part of the lecture series “Religious Practice in Digital Change” in the theme year “The Digitization of Religion” at the University of Münster. The subject of the lecture series is the question of how different churches and religious communities deal with the (…)
27. February 2024
Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler: Panel Discussion at the symposium: Church History and Game Studies?
Exploration of religion and history in digital games. From March 4-6 in Mainz at the theological department of the University of Mainz in cooperation with the working group Humanities and Digital Games, the medieval blog and Mittelalter.Digital https://kggames.uni-mainz.de/
23. February 2024
Recov-19 Project at GeNet-ISMRC Spring Meeting
The members of the Media and Religion Lab Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Dr. Hannah Grünenthal presented the project “Recov-19: The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” at the spring meeting of the Network of German-speaking Researchers of Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC). Together with the project “Covid-19 (…)
17. February 2024