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The Handbook on Religion and Communication

Newark: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 571 pp.
"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and ... more
"The TV series Jiok (Yon Sang-ho, 2021-), internationally known as Hellbound, is a recent and highly successful series that has been available on the streaming platform Netflix since November 2021. It is usually described as a "dark mystery thriller" or "dark fantasy film", which points to the gener ... more
"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t ... more
"Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf - ... more
"The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal cas ... more

Komm und sieh: Religion im Film. Analysen und Modelle

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 164 pp.
"Der erste große Teil dieses Bandes beschreibt - angefangen bei den "Zehn Geboten" und ihrer Aktualisierung in "The Beach" über das "Opfer" Harry Potters, Blade Runners & Katniss´ in "Tribute von Panem" bis hin zu natürlichen und künstlichen Intelligenzen ("Planet der Affen" und "Ex Machina") - ... more
"Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite ... more
"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; ... more

The Media and Religious Authority

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (2016), viii, 296 pp.
"The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to "brand" themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Afric ... more

SIGNIS and Cinema: Looking for God Behind the Screen

Opole (PL); Brussels: Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydzial Teologiczny;Signis Europe (2016), 85 pp.

Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination ... more

Audio-Visual Religion in Asia

Material Religion, volume 11, issue 4 (2015), pp. 415-549

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2015), xii, 316 pp.
"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 ... more
»Bollyworld Neukölln« ist nicht nur die erste umfassende Studie zum Hindi-Kino in Deutschland, die spezifische, inoffizielle und migrantische Rezeptionswege mitberücksichtigt, sondern zeigt auch neue empirische Perspektiven auf Migranten und Medien auf. Anstatt MigrantInnen unreflektiert nach be ... more

Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2011), xv, 259 pp.