The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture provides educational resources on religions around the world, including each of their different practices, beliefs and histories. It is based in Kolkata, India.

The Religion Communicators Council is an interfaith association of religion communicators at work in print and electronic communication, marketing and in public relations. It is based in New York City. Shirley Struchen is executive director.

A July 1, 2013 Guardian article that argues that video games seem to come to the same conclusion about damaged and bizarre societies: it’s all about men and violence.

An April 5, 2010 Kotaku article on the treatment of religion in video games historically.

Beliefnet.com is an internet resource site for world religions. It describes itself as “the ambitious venture-capital-backed multifaith “supersite” on religion, spirituality and morality.” It is headquartered in Norfolk, Va. Contact through the website.

CrossCurrents provides “the very best thought and writing being done on the world’s major faith traditions” as well as recommended resources for better understanding of religious traditions and the interaction between them. It is based in New York City.

Gregory Grieve is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He studies digital religion, including how religious practices and beliefs are represented in video games.

A writer and games designer. His games, including Shabbat-Put! and Sacrifice Play have been staged in the U.S. and U.K., and earlier this year he staged a fully-gamed church service at Union Theological Seminary. His largest project to date is a belief agnostic, fully-gamed new religion, Ten Year Game, which started in fall 2011.

William Bainbridge is a sociologist of religion, science and popular culture. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation and a senior fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He teaches sociology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. In 2013, he published eGods: Faith Versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming, […]