Dr. Michael Waltemathe
Michael
Waltemathe, Ph.D. is
Research Associate at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the
Ruhr-University Bochum in the field of religious education and religious
studies.
For several years he has been working with computer
games and
religion, especially in the use of computer games in religious
education. Computer games are a new media and learning environment
that can contain virtual constructions of religious
spaces.
Michael is presenting A Religious Vision for Interstellar Travel? at
the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium.
His
theoretical
interests include constructivist reflections on religious education and
the opportunities to learn in religious plurality. His
passion is and remains the game as a phenomenon.
Michael is on the
Working Group for Religious Education (AfR eV),
Working Group for Phenomenology, Organization, and Technology (POT),
Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Technology and
Human Interaction, and the
International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR).
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