Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Ali razizadeh

PhD of Wisdom of Religious Arts.

Abstract

Nowadays video games like other forms of arts, are capable to provide content which is derived from adopted beliefs by video games’ designers to improve religious attitudes, increased religious information and even create a spiritual experience for users of this emerging art. This possibility, with a special focus on the unique characteristics of computer games and using features that have been clarified in religious art, can eventually lead to the creation of religious video game. Therefore, the question this article attempts to answer is how to provide a religious video game; but before the examination and the answer to the question, the more fundamental question must inevitably be considered and it is this issue that makes it possible to have a religious video game. So in order to check the possibility and how to provide a religious video game, this article tries to provide an explanation of the video game and religious art with descriptive-analytical method. The main achievement of this research is to explain how appropriate communication between meaning making form of video games with content derived from religious teachings in order to provide a religious video game.

Keywords

• Video Game Studies
• Religious Art
• The Historical School
• The Traditionalist School
• Religious Video Game