Electronic game research methodologies: Studying religious implications

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-53

  Bainbridge, William Sims ^a   Bainbridge, Wilma Alice ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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