Gregory Price Grieve is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His current research uses video games to explore the category of evil in contemporary life.

Grieve discusses how video games differ from other media such as film and printed literature, because they do not merely represent evil as an audio/visual layer, or tell about evil as narrative, but simulate immersive worlds in which players dwell. Because of such immersion, video games reveal the ways in which digital technologies reshape human relationships.

Gregory Price Grieve is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His current research uses video games to explore the category of evil in contemporary life. Grieve discusses how video games differ from other media such as film and printed literature, because they do not merely represent evil as an audio/visual layer, or tell about evil as narrative, but simulate immersive worlds in which players dwell. Because of such immersion, video games reveal the ways in which digital technologies reshape human relationships.

Episode 9: Video Games and the Problem of Evil

How can professors and teachers create relevant and effective courses on the themes of religion technology and human presence? This set of interviews with a dozen scholars from across the academic disciplines and theologians provides a window into cutting-edge pedagogies surrounding the the themes of religion technology and human presence. The courses and pedagogical strategies that we discuss in this series emerge from a variety of settings—from liberal arts colleges to research universities. This limited series is designed to help educators scholars and journalists think about how to teach and communicate about these complex and entangled elements of contemporary society in ways that are compelling and meaningful. The interviews are a result of Public Theologies of Technology and Presence a research initiative based at the Institute for Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

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