For a brief period in the late Sixties LaVey was rubbing shoulders with movie stars and Satanism took on a glamorous edge. But the brutal Manson murders changed everything …. The actress Jayne Mansfield,...
” And You Were There”: A Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road with the Academic Study of Religion by Laurel Zwissler (2014-10) Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film by Joel W. Martin (2000-04) The Apocalyptic...
I just added the abstract of 30 recent articles from the Journal of Religion & Film to the site. From issues Volume 18, Issue 1 (2014), Volume 17, Issue 2 (2013), Volume 16, Issue 1 (2012) and Volume...
I just loaded 13 relevant articles from the last 8 issues of Journal of Religion and Popular Culture i.e. all the 2012-2014 issues available into this site: – Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie...
The Mad Max series shows society and culture devolve with each installment. It is about the worship of the machine and the mechanized destruction it can visit upon humanity. As the series evolves we see the...
The latest issue of Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014) was a Special Issue focusing on Buddhism and Film. I just added its articles to this site Pema Tseden’s Transnational Cinema:...
These four essays and this thesis was added to this site today: Religion and South Park Or How I Learned To Stop Arguing and Listen to a Midget in a Bikini Ritualism in Nigerian...
The latest issue of the Journal of Religion & Film is now online: Volume 17, Issue 1 (2013) April 2013 . In addition to the Sundance and Slamdance 2013 reviews, it has additional film reviews, and eight...
The following six essays were added to the site the last month: The Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme by Maria Francesca Piredda Nothing Sacred: Ignatian principles of heroic leadership in entertainment media by John...
The October 2012 issue of the Journal of Religion and Film is online. It contains 10 essays, one book review and four film reviews. As usual, each piece is available as a PDF download,...