Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / Joseph P. Laycock.
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TextCopyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (364 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780520960565
- 0520960564
- 1322567506
- 9781322567501
- 0520284917
- 9780520284913
- 0520284925
- 9780520284920
- Fantasy games -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Role playing -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Dungeons and Dragons (Game) -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Jeu de rôle -- Aspect moral
- Donjons et dragons -- Aspect moral
- GAMES -- Role Playing & Fantasy
- RELIGION -- Psychology of Religion
- Fantasy games -- Moral and ethical aspects
- 793.93 23
- GV1469.6 .L395 2015
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Jan. 15, 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface. "You Worship Gods from Books!"; Introduction. Fantasy and Reality; PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE PANIC; 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games; 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon; 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982; 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991; 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001; PART II. INTERPRETING THE PANIC; 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning; 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous; 8. Rival Fantasies; Conclusion. Walking between Worlds.
"The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included the Christian Right, psychologists, and law enforcement claimed these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic"--Provided by publisher.
English.
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