In the month of June 2016 I added these 22 books to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, and the rest is from earlier

1. Baring Our Souls: TV Talk Shows and the Religion of Recovery (1999) by Kathleen S. Lowney – Buy
2. Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences (2016) by Barbara Ryan, Milette Shamir – Buy
3. Christ and Pop Culture Goes to the Movies: 2015 (2016) by Wade Bearden, Kevin McLenithan – Buy
4. Cinema and Sacrifice (2015) by Costica Bradatan, Camil Constantin Ungureanu – Buy
5. Cinematic Savior: Hollywood’s Making of the American Christ (2006) by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks – Buy
6. Film, Faith, and Cultural Conflict: The Case of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (2003) by Thomas Robin Riley – Buy
7. The Holy Fool in European Cinema (2016) by Alina G. Birzache – Buy
8. Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (1999) by S. Brent Plate, David Jasper – Buy
9. Jesus Christ Movie Star (2000) by Steven Lloyd Teel – Buy
10. Jesus Christ, Movie Star (2015) by Edward N. McNulty, Ken Chitwood – Buy
11. Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: A Handbook to Jesus on DVD (2007) by Jeffrey L. Staley, Richard Walsh – Buy
12. Media, Culture, and the Religious Right (1998) by Linda Kintz, Julia Lesage – Buy
13. Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film (2003) by Richard Walsh – Buy
14. Savior on the Silver Screen (1999) by Richard C Stern, Clayton N Jefford – Buy
15. Seeing is Believing: Visions of Life Through Film (1998) by Robert Benne – Buy
16. Shining Glory: Theological Reflections on Terrence Malicks Tree of Life (2013) by Peter J. Leithart – Buy
17. Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture (1999) by Jennifer E. Porter, Darcee L. McLaren – Buy
18. A Substitute for God: Religion and Film (2015) by Mark Ryan – Buy
19. Tarantino And Theology (2015) by Jonathan Walls, Jerry Walls – Buy

In the month of June 2016 I added this 42 articles to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, but the rest is from the 1980’s

1. “The Apostle”: An Interview with Robert Duvall by Bill Blizek and Ronald Burke (1998-04)
2. The Caucasianization of Jesus: Hollywood Transforming Christianity into a Racially Hierarchical Discourse by Catherine Jones, Atsushi Tajima (2015-11)
3. Contemporary Films and Religious Exploration: An Opportunity for Religious Education. Part 1: Foundational Questions. by Pamela P. Mitchell Legg (1996-09)
4. Contemporary Films and Religious Exploration: An Opportunity for Religious Education. Part II: How to Engage in Conversation with Film. by Pamela P. Mitchell Legg (1997-11)
5. The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in The Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves by Kyle Keefer and Tod Linafelt (1998-04)
6. “The Fairy Tale is True”: Social Technologies of the Religious Supernatural in Film and New Media by Diana Walsh Pasulka (2016-04)
7. Frum with Benefits: Israeli Television, Globalization, and Srugim’s American Appeal by Shayna Weiss (2016-04)
8. Has Hollywood finally found god? by Tim Stanley (2016-04)
9. “Holocaust Laughter”? A German response to Punch Me In the Stomach by Tania Oldenhage (1997-10)
10. Images of God in the Movies by Andrew M. Greeley (1997-04)
11. The Influence of Bollywood Films on Punjabi Sikh Youths’ Perception of Their Religious Identity by Ashwinder Kaur a/p Gurbanjan Singh (2015-12)
12. Islamic Positivism and Scientific Truth: Qur’an and Archeology in a Creationist Documentary Film by Baudouin Dupret, Clémentine Gutron (2016-04)
13. The Jesus Film: Between Global Christianization and World Christianity by Colin H. Yuckman (2015-12)
14. Keeping the Faith: Religious moviegoers drive demand for authenticity by Andreas Fuchs (2016-03)
15. Kierkegaard at Babette’s Feast: The Return to the Finite by Jean Schuler (1997-10)
16. “Love Everything” Cinema and Belief in Malick’s The Tree of Life by Robert Sinnerbrink (2016-02)
17. Mountains, monks and mandalas: ‘Kundun’ and ‘Seven Years in Tibet.’ by Mark Abramson (1998-07)
18. Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Abel: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4 by Gregory Allen Robbins (1997-04)
19. The Mutated Spirit: The Hollywood Zombie as Psychopomp by Keira McKenzie (2011-09)
20. On Human Nature in the Thought of Muhyiddin Ibn’ Arabi and the Western Tradition Within the Context of the Film The Silence of the Lambs by Ridade Öztürk (2016-01)
21. Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film by Eve L. Mullen (1998-10)
22. Perception and Reaction: The Representation of the Shari’a in Nollywood and Kanywood Films by Nasiru Wada Khalil (2016-04)
23. Picturing the Way in Bae Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? by Michael L. Gillespie (1997-04)
24. Problematizing the Human-Technology Relationship through Techno-Spiritual Myths Presented in The Machine, Transcendence and Her by Heidi A. Campbell (2016-01)
25. The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror by Carl Greiner (1997-04)
26. Redressing Jewish Difference in Tania Modleski’s “Cinema and the Dark Continent” by Laura Levitt (1997-10)
27. Religion, Blasphemy, and Tradition in the Films of Lucio Fulci by James Reitter (2011-09)
28. Religion, Theology and Film in a Postmodern Age: A Response to John Lyden by Clive Marsh (1998-04)
29. Rivette’s The Nun: Religion between Sadism and Masochism by Paolo Stellino, Claudio Rozzoni (2016-01)
30. Sacred Time and Ritualistic Behavior at Harry Potter Book Releases and Film Premieres by Tyler Dukes (2016-04)
31. The scientist as pioneer hero: Hollywood’s mythological reconciliations in twister and contact by Geoff King (1999-07)
32. The Shaping Influence of Film and Television on the Spirituality and Identity of Children and Adolescents: an educational response—part 3 by Graham Rossiter (1999-11)
33. Show Faith in Moviegoers: Devout audiences respond to unprecedented range of films by Andreas Fuchs (2016-05)
34. Spirited publics? Post-secularism, enchantment and enterprise on Indian television by Lewis (2016-05)
35. Thou Shalt Kill . . . Carefully: Secular Religion, the Immanent Frame, and Showtime’s Dexter by Matthew Pittman (2015-11)
36. “The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul”: Grace and Noir in Schrader’s Light Sleeper by Jason Ambrosiano (1998-10)
37. “Time Is a Flat Circle”: True Detective and the Specter of Moral Panic in American Pop Culture by Joseph P. Laycock (2015-11)
38. To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies by John Lyden (1997-10)
39. “A ton of faith in science!” nature and role of assumptions in, and ideas about, science and epistemology generated upon watching a sci-fi film by John Y. Myers and Fouad Abd-El-Khalick (2016-04)
40. Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves by Irena S. M. Makarushka (1998-04)
41. Unreeled Presence: The Film Screen as Altar by John Matturri (1988-02)
42. Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film by Conrad Ostwalt (1998-04)

In the month of May 2016 I added these 22 books to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, and the rest is from earlier

1. The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (2016) by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch – Buy
2. Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (2016) by Elijah Siegler – Buy
3. Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film (2016) by Jay Dyer – Buy
4. Faith, Family, Film: A Teacher’s Trek (2016) by Fred Eichelman – Buy
5. Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of The Greatest Story Ever Told (1992) by Ken Darby – Buy
6. I Just Saw Jesus: The JESUS Film – From Vision, to Reality, to the Unimaginable (2016) by Paul Eshleman – Buy
7. Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film (1993) by Maryel – Buy
8. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer: An Ethnographic Film Monograph (1996) by Linda Connor, Patsy Asch, Timothy Asch – Buy
9. Light Shining in a Dark Place: Discovering Theology through Film (2012) by Jeff Sellars – Buy
10. Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion at the Movies (2016) by Richard Striner – Buy
11. Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘Decalogue’ (2016) by Eva Badowska, Francesca Parmeggiani – Buy
12. Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (2016) by Matthew S. Rindge – Buy
13. Redeeming Television: How TV Changes Christians–how Christians Can Change TV (1992) by Quentin J. Schultze – Buy
14. Religion and Prime Time Television (1997) by Michael Suman – Buy
15. Religion Vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context (1996) by Jay Newman – Buy
16. Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions (1990) by Robert Abelman, Stewart M. Hoover – Buy
17. Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television (2010) by Douglas E. Cowan – Buy
18. The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) (2016) by David Shepherd – Buy
19. Through a Lens Darkly: Tracing Redemption in Film (2015) by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki – Buy
20. Watching TV Religiously: Television and Theology in Dialogue (2016) by Kutter Callaway, Dean Batali – Buy
21. The Way: A Cinematic Retreat Guide (2016) by Rose Pacatte – Buy
22. Westernized Visual Representation of Jesus and the Construction of Religious Meanings (2015) by Dong Hwan Kwon – Buy

In the month of May 2016 I added this 44 articles to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, but the rest is from the 1990’s

1. Acts of God: Film, Religion, and FX by Judith Wilt (1997-01)
2. “Aftertones of Infinity”: Biblical and Darwinian Evocations in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and To the Wonder by Gregory Allen Robbins (2016-01)
3. Agonizing Transitions and Turning Away from God in Two Tunisian Movies by Imen Yacoubi (2016-01)
4. “As We See, So We Learn”: Doctor Who as Religious Education by Owen D. Edwards (2015-12)
5. Babette’s Feast: A Religious Film by Wendy M. Wright (1997-10)
6. The Books of the films: Trends in religious film-analysis by Steve Nolan (1998-03)
7. Buddha found and lost in the Chinese nation of ‘Diversity in Unity’: Pema Tseden’s films as a Buddhist mode of reflexivity
   by Kwai-Cheung Loa (2016-04)
8. Contending for Faith: Analyzing The Assault On Faith In The Truman Show And The Ladykillers by Timothy J. Etherington (2004-12)
9. Different Images of God: Theological-aesthetical Evaluation of Films by Andrey Zvyagintsev and Pavel Lungin by Denys Kondyuk (2016-01)
10. Doctor Who and the Iconographic Search for an Ecstatic Human Religious Experience by Stacy Embry (2015-12)
11. Dr. King and the Image of God: A Theology of Voting Rights in Ava DuVernay’s Selma by Marcos Norris (2016-04)
12. Enlightenments: The Interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism on Screen by Andronika M. Martonova (2016-01)
13. The Eyes Have it: Film, Editing, and Postmodern Theological Hermeneutics by James M. Hansen (2016-04)
14. Fetish, Sacrifice and Tragic Freedom in the Dardenne Brothers’ La Promesse by Andrew Small (2016-04)
15. From Marseille to Mecca: Reconciling the Secular and the Religious in Le grand voyage (The Big Trip) (2004) by Yahya Laayouni (2016-04)
16. “He who kills the body, kills the soul that inhabits it”: Feminist Filmmaking, Religion, and Spiritual Identification in Vision by Carl Laamanen (2016-04)
17. Into the Arms of Dr Who: Implicit Religion and a Cowboy’s Redemption by William Keenan (2015-12)
18. Islam, animation, and money: The reception of Disney’s Aladdin in Southeast Asia. by Timothy R. White, J. Emmett Winn (1999-12)
19. Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus by Adele Reinhartz (1998-10)
20. Madness, Otherness and Transformation: Exploring Religion in Nordic Crime Films by Sofia Sjö (2016-01)
21. Madonnas in Our Midst: Representations of Women Religious in Hollywood Film by MaryAnn Janosik (1997-07)
22. The Medium and the Spirit: On Teaching Religion and Film by Torey L. Lightcap (1997-03)
23. The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic by Matthew McEver (1998-10)
24. MOVIES: Is God Really Dead in Beverly Hills? Religion and the Movies by Stanley Rothman (1996-04)
25. “Noah’s Beasts Were the Stars”: Arthur Melbourne Cooper’s Noah’s Ark (1909) by David Shepherd (2016-01)
26. Pasolini on Terra Sancta : Towards a Theology of Film by Noa Steimatsky (1998-04)
27. Redeemed in Blood: The Sacramental Universe of Martin Scorsese by Richard A. Blake S.J. (1996-01)
28. Redescribing “Religion and …” Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem by Russell T. McCutcheon (1998-06)
29. Rejecting the Ethnic Community in Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and Scarface by Bryan Mead (2016-04)
30. Religious conflict, popular culture and the troubled spectators of recent Indian film by Anthony R. Guneratne (1997-04)
31. Religious Faith and Science in Contact by Bryan P. Stone (1998-10)
32. The Roles Of Violence in Recent Biblical Cinema: The Passion, Noah, And Exodus: Gods And Kings by Kevin M. McGeough (2016-04)
33. Screenwriters as Theologians: Doctor Who’s Scope for Theological Exploration
    by Caroline Symcox (2015-12)
34. Seeing the Light, Hearing the Call: Women Religious as Spectators and Subjects of Popular Nun Films by Maureen A. Sabine (2016-04)
35. Spirits and Ceremonies: How to Construct Religious Experience in Documentary Film by Jouko Aaltonen (2016-01)
36. Star Trek and theology by Jolyon Mitchell (1998-05)
37. Suffering and Soul-Making in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out by Bertha A. Manninen Ph.D. (2016-04)
38. Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ by Frank Bosman (2014-11)
39. Teaching Religion and Film by Paul V. M. Flesher, Robert Torry (1998-12)
40. That unbearable recurring apocalytic nightmare : crisis and apocalyptic visions in British film, 1987-1994 by Anthony John Kinik, (1997-10)
41. The Truth About Inherit the Wind by Carol Iannone (1997-02)
42. Various Representations of Jews in Turkish Cinema by Melih Çoban (2016-01)
43. Word and Image: Burgess, Zeffirelli, and Jesus the Man of Nazareth by Graham Holderness (2008-11)
44. The Word Made Cinematic: The Representation of Jesus in Cinema by Gregory Kahlil Kareem Alleen (2008-06)

In the month of April 2016 I added this 42 articles to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, but the rest is from the 1980’s

1. Allegory and Ambiguity in the Films of Majid Majidi: A Theodicy of Meaning by Cyrus Ali Zargar (2016-01)
2. “Can We Laugh at God?”: Apocalyptic Comedy in Film by Robert Lamm (1991-06)
3. The Catholic Imagination in Popular Film & Television by Ingrid Shafer (1991-08)
4. Doctor Who and Immortality: Influence of Christian and Buddhist Ethics by Leena Vuolteenaho (2015-12)
5. Eros and Contemplation: The Catholic Vision of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder by Kathleen E. Urda (2016-01)
6. Examining the Critical Role American Popular Film Continues to Play in Maintaining the Muslim Terrorist Image, Post 9/11 by Rubina Ramji (2016-01)
7. Film and the Sacred by Joseph Cunneen (1993-04)
8. Filmed ‘Not During the Sabbath’: The Israeli Haredi Minority through the Camera’s Lens by Yohai Hakak (2016-03)
9. Films, Values, Absolutes: Why Theological Readings of Films are Morally and Politically Essential by Clive Marsh (2016-01)
10. God never dies’: Buñuel and Catholicism by Michael Wood (1993-02)
11. A God Who Plays it by Ear 5 Metaphors for God in Recent Films by Andrew Greeley (1991-08)
12. God’s Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War “Epic” by Alan Nadel (1993-05)
13. God’s Middle Children Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club by Justin Garrison (2013-08)
14. Hinduism and Its Others in Bollywood Film of the 2000s by Diana Dimitrova (2016-01)
15. Historical figures in film: the celluloid Christ by Sarah Noah (1993-05)
16. Historical Film and Hindu–Muslim Relations in Post-Hindutva India: The Case of Jodhaa Akbar by Raita Merivirta (2016-03)
17. Hollywood, Main Street, and the Church: Trying to Censor the Movies Before the Production Code by Francis G. Couvares (1992-12)
18. Impact of Television Advertisement on Consumer. Buying Behavior: The Moderating Role of. Religiosity in the context of Pakistan by Bushra Anjum, Attiya Irum (2015-12)
19. Jesus and the Movies by John Klukach (1991-02)
20. Jung and The Godfather movies : analyzing film from an archetypal perspective by Joseph Broda (1994-06)
21. “The Last Temptation of Christ” et l’« affaire » Scorsese by André Muraire (1992-05)
22. Mary Magdalene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code by Tammie M. Kennedy (2012-08)
23. Movie stars and Islamic moralism in Egypt by Lila Abu-Lughod (1995-04)
24. Nigerian Audiences’ Perception of Pentecostal Churches’ Ownership of Satellite Television Channels by Paul Martin Obayi, Ph.D and Ignatius Obiorah Edogor (2016-03)
25. Philippine Muslims on Screen: From Villains to Heroes by Vivienne Angeles (2016-01)
26. The Priests of Cyborg by Peter C. Reynolds (1993-07)
27. The Qur’anic Epic in Iranian Cinema by Nacim Pak-Shiraz (2016-01)
28. “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: Totem and Taboo by Andrew Gordon (1991-10)
29. Religious and National Identity in My Name is Khan by Kathleen M. Erndl (2016-01)
30. The religious dimension of cinematographical consciousness in postmodern culture by Sylvain De Bleeckere (1994-05)
31. Rewriting God’s Plot: Ingmar Bergmann and Feminine Narrative by Mark B. Sandberg (1991-11)
32. The Rise and Fall of American Televangelism by Jeffrey K. Hadden (1993-05)
33. Sacred Women in Coptic Cinema: Between Faith and Resistance by Lise Paulsen Galal (2009-04)
34. SDA Youth and the Movies: An Analysis of the Church’s Current Message by Brenda Keller (1993-04)
35. The Seal of the Confessional: Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal in Social and Cultural Context by Adele Reinhartz (2016-01)
36. The spoken and unspoken nature of child abuse in the miniseries Devil’s Playground: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church and television drama in Australia by Terrie Waddell, Timothy W Jones (2016-03)
37. Star Trek Fandom as a Religious Phenomenon by Michael Jindra (1994-06)
38. Televising religion: A study of Sathya Sai Baba’s funeral broadcast in Gangtok, India by Manoj Kumar Das (2015-12)
39. Television and Evangelism: A Cautionary Tale by Angela Tilby (1991-06)
40. Time the Redeemer: Time as an Object of Cinema in a Post-Metaphysical Age by Greg Watkins (2016-01)
41. Tracking the Fallen Apple: Ineffability, Religious Tropes, and Existential Despair in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia by Joseph Kickasola (2016-01)
42. Watching Movies in the Name of the Lord: Thoughts on Analyzing Christian Film Criticism by James Y. Trammell (2012-08)

In the month of April 2016 I added this 21 books to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, and the rest is from tearlier

1. Archetypes in Japanese Film: The Sociopolitical and Religious Significance of the Principal Heroes and Heroines (1989) by Gregory Barrett – Buy
2. Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema (1993) by Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans – Buy
3. Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity (2015) by Montré Aza Missouri – Buy
4. Blessed are the Eyes that Catch Divine Whispering …: Silence and Religion in Film (2015) by Freek L. Bakker, Mathilde van Dijk, Leo van der Tuin, Marjeet Verbeek – Buy
5. Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film (2008) by Carrol Lee Fry – Buy
6. Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second (2008) by Julien R. Fielding – Buy
7. Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films (2014) by Stephen C. Meyer – Buy
8. Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume III (2015) by Kenneth R. Morefield, Nicholas S. Olson – Buy
9. Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema: Blind Paul (2016) by Sean Desilets – Buy
10. Hollywood Biblical Epics: Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day (2015) by Richard Lindsay – Buy
11. Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars (2008) by Thomas Lindlof – Buy
12. Homiletic: Moves and Structures (1987) by David G. Buttrick – Buy
13. Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime (2015) by Yoshiko Okuyama – Buy
14. Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and his Times via Monty Python’s Life of Brian (2015) by Joan E. Taylor – Buy
15. Judas Iscariot: Damned or Redeemed: A Critical Examination of the Portrayal of Judas in Jesus Films (1902-2014) (2016) by Carol Anne Hebron – Buy
16. Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism and Power (2015) by Daniel Biltereyst, Daniela Treveri Gennari – Buy
17. Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson – Buy
18. Preaching to a TV Generation: The Sermon in the Electronic Age (1994) by Michael Rogness – Buy
19. The Sacred Foodways of Film: Theological Servings in 11 Food Films (2016) by Antonio D. Sison – Buy
20. Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen (2008) by Douglas E. Cowan – Buy
21. Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana (2015) by Birgit Meyer – Buy

Last year on May 1st, when the 200th blog entry was posted, I shared some statistics of this site. Here is an update of where we are now. (The numbers in parenthesis represent last year’s data)

• 336 blogs posts (vs 200)
• 124 books (vs 82)
• 287 articles (vs 199)
• 57 syllabi (vs 57)
• 42 likes Facebook page (vs 35)
• 325 followers on Twitter (vs 24)
• 9 followers on Google+ (vs 2)
• We had 12,250 sessions (vs 8,682)  by 11,009 users (vs 7,849) and 25,962 pageviews (vs 19,764) – since January 1, 2007