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Dangerous Games - What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (Paperback)
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Dangerous Games - What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (Paperback)
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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.
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