Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9780916211530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rifts Conversion Book
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9780916211530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Palladium Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9780916211530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rifts Sourcebook
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916211516
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916211516
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Rifts Dark Conversions
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574570793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A sourcebook of evil monsters for use with the RIFTS role playing game.
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574570793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A sourcebook of evil monsters for use with the RIFTS role playing game.
Rifts Book of Magic
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574570694
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574570694
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Skraypers
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916211783
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916211783
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rifts Game Master Guide
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9781574570670
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Palladium Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9781574570670
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rifts Role-Playing Game
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574571509
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Palladium Books
ISBN: 9781574571509
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Dangerous Games
Author: Joseph P. Laycock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520960564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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 representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that 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. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religion—as a socially constructed world of shared meaning—can also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. Laycock’s clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520960564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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 representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that 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. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religion—as a socially constructed world of shared meaning—can also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. Laycock’s clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Books In Print 2004-2005
Author: Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
The Rifter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574570816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574570816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description