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film-dienst (Film Journal, Germany, 1947-)
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Interfilm (Protestant Film Organization, 1955-)
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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Islam: Media Representation & Reporting
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Wenders, Wim
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Radio
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Muslim Media
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Mary on the Screen
CREC (2014), 74 pp.
"The first part of the book is an overview of the history of films which offer substantial images of Mary. They include the films specifically about Mary and her presence in the life of Jesus films [...] In the second part of the book, which has been designed especially as an aid to teachers, eight
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Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194
"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast
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Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction.
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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th
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Iranian Religious Film and Inter-Religious Understanding
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 165-198
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h
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Encyclopedia of Religion and Film
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2011), xix, 644 pp.
"Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provid
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Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present
Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2011), ix, 294 pp.
The Representation of African Traditional Religion and Culture in Nigeria Popular Films
Politics and Religion, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 81-101
"One of the ways by which religious rituals communicate in African society is by maintaining cohesion in the culture. They connect participants to richer meanings and larger forces of their community. Even in representational models, rituals create solidarity in the form of subjective experiences of
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2009), xiv, 503 pp.
The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film
London: Continuum (2009), x, 426 pp.
Spirit Cinema: Handbuch des spirituellen Films
Berlin: Allegria (2008), 351 pp.
"Die 300 wichtigsten Spielfilme, Dokumentationen und TV-Movies mit spirituellem Hintergrund, ausführlich vorgestellt und besprochen mit Photos, Filmographie und Bezugsquellen-Hinweisen. Dazu Porträts der wichtigsten deutschen und internationalen Regisseure, Hintergründe der Filmentstehung und Reg
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Teaching Religion and Film
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 309 pp.
"Part I presents general categories for thinking about the intersection between religion and film, as well as an argument for an emerging line of theoretical inquiry. The chapters in Part II examine the use of film in teaching religious traditions, whether movies are seen from the critical perspecti
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Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press (2008), 301 pp.
Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide
Malden: Blackwell (2008), xiv, 245 pp.
Wunder der Leinwand: Filme mit biblischer Botschaft
Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk (2008), 120 pp.
"Ob "Herr der Ringe", "Das Leben der Anderen" oder "Bruce Allmächtig" - in vielen populären Kino-Filmen werden Gott, die Bibel und aktuelle ethische Fragen thematisiert. Doch wie findet man den passenden Film zum jeweiligen religiös-ethischen Thema? Der Autor liefert auf kompakte Art und Weise ei
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Catholics in the Movies
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 362 pp.
"Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be
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