Campus Spotlight

October 20, 2015

<p>Assistant Professor Owen Gottlieb, center, leads the MAGIC Center’s Religion, Culture, and Policy Initiative, which cultivates research that focuses on games, religious literacy, the acquisition of cultural practices and the implications for policy and politics. Here, Gottlieb works with graduate students Lakshminarayanan Vijayaraghavan, left, and Alex Lobl on the initiative project, Codename: Purple, a tabletop card-to-mobile strategy game currently in development that teaches literacy in medieval religious legal systems. Beginning with a medieval Jewish law code and built modularly to incorporate Muslim and potentially other neighboring sacred law systems, the game will provide live cases modeling religious systems for communal cooperation and collaboration. For more information, go to magic.rit.edu/rcp.&nbsp;</p>
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Assistant Professor Owen Gottlieb, center, leads the MAGIC Center’s Religion, Culture, and Policy Initiative, which cultivates research that focuses on games, religious literacy, the acquisition of cultural practices and the implications for policy and politics. Here, Gottlieb works with graduate students Lakshminarayanan Vijayaraghavan, left, and Alex Lobl on the initiative project, Codename: Purple, a tabletop card-to-mobile strategy game currently in development that teaches literacy in medieval religious legal systems. Beginning with a medieval Jewish law code and built modularly to incorporate Muslim and potentially other neighboring sacred law systems, the game will provide live cases modeling religious systems for communal cooperation and collaboration. For more information, go to magic.rit.edu/rcp. 

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