While you're playing World of Warcraft...

... others are writing theses about it:

Fans take their love to extremes -- but divine love?

That's the thesis of Theo Zijderveld, who's doing postgraduate work on the intersection of faith and "World of Warcraft" at University of Colorado's Center for Media, Religion and Culture.

... Zijderveld is interested in how people's spirituality has become more fluid and pluralistic. As he put it in his thesis, "People combine Christianity with yoga, Buddhism and self-help books" and "believe without belonging."

(Excerpted from Colorado Daily)

That last line incidentally reminds me simultaneously of two books I read recently: Mike Horton's Christless Christianity and A.J. Jacobs Year of Living Biblically. The first is a critique; the second an application.