Abstract
Lost & Found is a game series, created at the Initiative for
Religion, Culture, and Policy at the Rochester Institute of
Technology MAGIC Center.1 The series teaches medieval
religious legal systems. This article uses the first two games
of the series as a case study to explore a particular set of
processes to conceive, design, and develop games for learning.
It includes the background leading to the author's work
in games and teaching religion, and the specific context for
the Lost & Found series. It discusses the rationale behind
working to teach religious legal systems more broadly, then
discuss the hermeneutics influencing the approach to
understanding the legal systems being modeled, and closes
with a discussion of the kind of teaching and learning
involved in the design of the games and early stage data
on the public play of the games.
Publication Date
Fall 10-19-2018
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
School of Interactive Games and Media (GCCIS)
Recommended Citation
Gottlieb, Owen (2018). Re‐playing Maimonides' codes: Designing games to teach religious legal systems. In Teaching Theology & Religion: Vol. 21 Issue 4 (pp. 246-259). Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
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Comments
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article:
Gottlieb, Owen (2018). Re‐playing Maimonides' codes: Designing games to teach religious legal systems. In Teaching Theology & Religion: Vol. 21 Issue 4 (pp. 246-259). Wiley & Sons, Inc.
which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/teth.12453. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.