Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
Religion in Contemporary European Cinema: The Postsecular Constellation
1st Edition
Edited
By Costica Bradatan, Camil Ungureanu
April 27, 2017
The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is ...
Divine Film Comedies: Biblical Narratives, Film Sub-Genres, and the Comic Spirit
1st Edition
By Terry Lindvall, J. Dennis Bounds, Chris Lindvall
March 07, 2016
Divine Film Comedies creates a meaningful dialogue between stories in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and comedies spanning the history of film. The text lies at the intersection of three disciplines: humor/comedy studies, film studies, and theology. Drawing on films from the silent era to the ...
World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus
1st Edition
By Antonio Sison
June 23, 2015
Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film....