religiosaStudia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религииStudia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion2658-4158РГГУ10.28995/2658-4158-2019-2-85-102religiosa-80Research ArticleСтатьиPapersРелигия расчеловечивающая: репрезентации религиозного поведения в видеоиграх на примере Cultist SimulatorDehumanizing Religion: Representation of Religious Behavior in Cultist SimulatorМойжесЛ. В.MoyzhesL. V.

Леонид В. Мойжес, аспирант

Москва, Миусская пл., д. 6

 

Leonid V. Moyzhes, postgraduate student

bld. 6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow

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Данная статья предлагает анализ репрезентации верующих в игре Cultist Simulator от студии Weather Factory. Я стараюсь поместить эту видеоигру в более широкий контекст подхода к изображению религии и религиозных персонажей в мейнстриме видеоигровой индустрии с тем, чтобы лучше подчеркнуть как сходство, так и различия. Основная гипотеза отталкивается от того, что во многих играх выстраивается жесткий дуализм между секулярным пространством, определяющимся через индивидуальность и стремление к личному счастью, и религиозной сферой, стремящейся подавить индивидуума и в конечном итоге расчеловечить его, лишив собственной индивидуальности и уникальности. Cultist Simulator, сохраняя само противопоставление между «человечной» светской средой и «нечеловеческим» религиозным миром, демонстрирует совершенно иную оптику, в которой именно религия оказывается средством выражения индивидуальности персонажа и через него игрока.

This article presents an analysis of the way videogame “Cultist Simulator” by Weather Factory represents religious believers. I try to include this project in a wider context created by the ways in which different mainstream games portray religion and its followers. Main hypothesis is following: in many cases representation of religion is based around strict dualism between secular sphere, strongly associated with individualism and pursuit of personal happiness, and religious space which tries to strip any character of its individuality and uniqueness, and, ultimately, to dehumanize him. Cultist simulator, while retaining this base conflict between “human” secular space and “inhuman” religious world presents quite different approach. In this game, religion becomes the way for character and, through him, his player to express his own individuality.

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