religion
Gambling and Vice in the Middle Ages
Gambling and Vice in the Hours of Charles V: card-playing in the local tavern

Round the World Families
Round the World Families published by the London Missionary Society, c.1945.

Anno Domini
Anno Domini biblical card game depicting New Testament history, published by John Jaques & Son, c.1875.

Mongolian Mask Dancing
Mongolian Religious Mask Dancing playing cards, c.2010

Jacob’s Bible Cards
Jacob’s Bible Cards published by Lion Playing Card Factory Ltd, Tel Aviv, 1980s

Progress
The story of “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan illustrated in a card game published by Castell Brothers Ltd (Pepys Games), 1938.

Snapshots
Snapshots, a Missionary Card Game depicting people from different cultural contexts engaged in their traditional ways of life...

Jewish Card Game
Judaism is the oldest of the great monotheist religions, parent of Christianity and Islam.

Anti-Religions
The Russians were no strangers to propaganda cards. Clubs represent the Russian Orthodox church, Hearts Roman Catholicism, Spades Confucianism and Diamonds represent Judaism.

Geistliche Karten
Geistliche Karten, Augsburg, 1718. Each card carries a text in Gothic typeface giving advice regarding what to do and think each day. Not quite oracle or divination cards, they are more like 'a motto for the day' collection. The method of using the cards is not known.

Naipes Cristianos
“Naipes Cristianos” catechetical playing cards with quotations from the four gospels, 2002.

Playing Cards and Religion
Early engravers and print makers made devotional images for pilgrims and people who could not afford paintings or books. Many of these craftsmen turned their hand to manufacturing playing cards to earn extra income. Stock images from the repertoire of devotional imagery might also de adapted to serve as playing card symbols.

Grace Cards
My creativity proved useful in the Primary School classroom and children's clubs I run at Brooke Baptist Church in Norfolk...
