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November 8, 2018
‚Äú‘Make Your Own Religion’: The Fictive Religion Assignment as Educational Game”
- Author
- Zeller, Benjamin E.
- Publisher
- Teaching Theology and Religion 21, no. 4 (2018): 321-335
This article considers the “create your own religion” or “fictive religion” assignment as a pedagogical tool, contextualizing it within the scholarship of teaching and learning, and positioning it as a tool for broad adoption in a variety of courses. I argue that we ought to conceptualize the fictive religion assignment as an instructional game, and make use of scholarship on teaching through games as a foundation for my analysis. While I offer the example of my own fictive religion assignment as a case study, the overall argument is a theoretical one, namely that the assignment works because of the nature of games.