Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television /
The Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television contains twenty-three chapters on a variety of religions and religious phenomena, focusing on how they are depicted in film and television. Methodological considerations and academic debates concerning the effectiveness of popular cultural...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion ;
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- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television: Media, Messages, and Methodology
- Venetia Laura Delano Robertson and Carole M. Cusack
- Part 1: Drama, Romance, and Comedy
- Introduction to Part 1
- 1 Making My Toys, Breaking My Toys: Theorising and Theory Building between Two Projects
- David Feltmate
- 2 "Hosti Gezeyn In Dayne Lebn?": Representation of Judaism in Contemporary Television and Film
- Eric Michael Mazur
- 3 An Ecumenical Matter: the Portrayal of Clergy on Contemporary British Television
- Andrew Crome
- 4 Pastors, Migrants and Mad Men: Religion in Contemporary Nordic Film and Television
- Sofia Sjö
- 5 Cosmopolitan Complexities in Contemporary Inter-faith Malaysian Films
- Humairah Zainal
- 6 World Drama Mission: Re-missioning African Diasporas through Evangelical Films
- Elizabeth Olayiwola
- Part 2: Historical and Political Portrayals
- Introduction to Part 2
- 7 From Gold Plates to Silver Screen: Capturing the Ancient World of the Book of Mormon on Film
- Elisha McIntyre
- 8 Audio-Visual Portrayals of Jehovah's Witnesses
- George D. Chryssides
- 9 Indigenous Re(presentation) in Film and Television
- Ulrike Wiethaus
- 10 Black Orpheus and the Portrayal of African-Derived Religions
- Bettina E. Schmidt
- 11 Indigenous Religion on Film: from Demonisation to Decolonisation in Sápmi
- Cato Christensen and Torjer A. Olsen
- 12 Filming Confucius: a "New" Chinese Nation through "Old" Chinese Values
- Stefania Travagnin
- 13 A Holy Dullness: Tarkovsky, Suture, and the Numinous
- Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow
- Part 3: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
- Introduction to Part 3
- 14 Esotericism and Occulture in the Cinema of the Weimar Republic
- Francisco Santos Silva
- 15 "In the Halls of Valhalla, Where the Brave May Live Forever": Depictions of Pre-Christian Religion in the Cinematic Adaptations of Beowulf
- Ethan Doyle White
- 16 Must Be the Season of the Witch: Witchcraft and Popular Feminism on the Screen
- Venetia Laura Delano Robertson
- 17 Cosmic Kidnapping: Alien Abduction Narratives, Popular (Oc)culture and the Folkloresque
- Erik A.W. Östling
- 18 Religion in Star Trek: from Killing God to the Klingon Gothic
- Benjamin E. Zeller
- Part 4: Documentary, Reality Television, and the Media
- Introduction to Part 4
- 19 The Supernatural Is Not Religion: Okaruto TV Programs in Japan
- Ioannis Gaitanidis
- 20 Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: Shinto Household Kami and Protestant Consumerist Animism
- Zoe Alderton
- 21 "A Theatrical Worship Experience": the Hillsong Film, Evangelism Techniques, and Growth Theology
- Mairead Shanahan
- 22 Scientology on Film: Documentary, Reconstruction, Fiction
- Carole M. Cusack
- 23 Representing Authenticity: Exploring Outlier Groups through Documentary Filmmaking
- Raymond Radford
- Index.