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Post #E32021, I'm reminded of how religion + video games studies privilege blockbuster PC/console names. As my mother recently taught me, "filthy casual" mobile games can make significant, even sophisticated, claims too.
A #SmartInPublic🧵on #Shinto in Clockmaker. @Sacred_Writes
A #SmartInPublic🧵on #Shinto in Clockmaker. @Sacred_Writes
At first, @Belka_Games's Clockmaker looks like a typical Match-3 puzzle game. But a feature that sets it apart & captured my mother's attention is the seasonal event storylines.
She suggested I check out the "Spirited East" spring event as a scholar of Japanese religion & media.
She suggested I check out the "Spirited East" spring event as a scholar of Japanese religion & media.
Ok, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. The Mr. Miyamori character is a dupe for #Ghibli animator #MiyazakiHayao. And the "Spirited East" title perpetuates a bananas orientalist binary of the 'modern, rational West' vs. the 'traditional, mystical East.' But let's dig in.
"Wait, religion and science?" people ask me. "Do those even go together?"
Yes they do. I study where they mix. Why? Because that's where things get real weird.
(A @Sacred_Writes #SmartInPublic thread.)
Yes they do. I study where they mix. Why? Because that's where things get real weird.
(A @Sacred_Writes #SmartInPublic thread.)
According to @pewresearch, the majority of Americans think religion and science are in conflict. We often see them as separate realms that only interact in intellectual skirmishes like the Scopes Trial. pewresearch.org/science/2015/1…
Yet, as this additional @pewresearch survey of Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus shows, the "Conflict Thesis" is a particularly Western, Christian view.
Science and religion interact in many other ways that we don't want to miss.
pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archi…
Science and religion interact in many other ways that we don't want to miss.
pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archi…
delighted to announce our latest media partnership with Beantown's only surviving alt-weekly, @DigBoston!
open to anyone with grad-level training in religion, theology, biblical studies, Islamic studies, or related fields
apps due 15 March
sacred-writes.org/digboston
open to anyone with grad-level training in religion, theology, biblical studies, Islamic studies, or related fields
apps due 15 March
sacred-writes.org/digboston
sorry we called it "Beantown" but they called us "older progressives," so
(@mpgPhD has been reading Boston alt-weeklies since even before the original Dig launched in 1999
"older" is not inaccurate but nevertheless how dare)
(@mpgPhD has been reading Boston alt-weeklies since even before the original Dig launched in 1999
"older" is not inaccurate but nevertheless how dare)
write 3-4 stories (1-1.5k words each) about religious architecture and sacred space in Boston
get paid $2000 to collaborate with @KARepublic
practice being #SmartInPublic and help Bostonians better understand the sacred space all around them
everybody wins!
get paid $2000 to collaborate with @KARepublic
practice being #SmartInPublic and help Bostonians better understand the sacred space all around them
everybody wins!
