Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds

by Joseph Laycock

Book Overview

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520284925
• ISBN13: 9780520284920
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A D&D/ Satanic Panic history MUST read

I’ve read a few books from this author and I am never disappointed. This one is really good, well researched and cited, and is pretty relevant.