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Book Review. Elisha McIntyre, Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture
(2020)
At first sight one might think that religion and humor contradict each other or at least are not a fruitful pair. The study Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture by Elisha McIntyre, an Australian ...
Beyond Cinematic Stereotypes: Using Religion to Gender Film Characters in Alternative Ways
(2016)
In films, religious characters are often gendered in quite traditional ways, but there are some notable exceptions. This article discusses two Scandinavian films that partly break this mold. The analysis illustrates how ...
Dharma and the Religious Other in Hindi Popular Cinema
(2020)
This essay examines common representations of religious minorities in Hindi popular cinema within the context of dominant post-Independence Indian religious and political ideologies—from a religiously pluralist secular ...
Images of the Muslim Woman and the Construction of Muslim Identity: The Essentialist Paradigm
(2016)
This article argues that much of the postmodern discourse on the Muslim woman and her veil is symptomatic of what I call the “essentialist paradigm”. The world is seen through the prism of a group’s religious/cultural ...
Methodological Challenges by (New) Media
(2015)
The classical concept of media analysis depends to a large extent on linearity, but modern interactive media are mostly non-linear. Roger Odin has suggested a method for working with such interactive media; however, the ...
SinnRäume – An Exhibition on Contemporary Religion in Germany. Exhibition Practice as a Medium in Religious Studies
(2017)
In the research and exhibition project SinnRäume, students at the Philipps University Marburg examined the materialization of contemporary religion, exploring how religion is practiced at home, how a domestic room becomes ...
Anatomy of a Wedding: Examining Religiosity, Feminism, and Weddings in GREY’S ANATOMY
(2018)
Medical drama "Grey’s Anatomy" features weddings as pivotal life events, with 14 unions portrayed over the program’s 13 seasons on ABC. This paper is a synthetic approach combining communication, gender studies, and rigorous ...