Publications
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Documentary Media and Religious Communities
(2015)
The article considers four spaces where media processes involve religious communities and agents: the spaces of production, of representation, of media communication, and of distribution network and institutional framework ...
The Hidden Jesus. The Nazarene in the Jewish Polemical Literature: The Case of the 16th-Century Text Sefer Hizzuq Emunah
(2019)
The aim of this article is to retrace the figure of Jesus that was hidden under the polemical and apologetic strategy of the text known under the title Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah (Strengthening of the Faith), composed at the end ...
Mr Robot. Hacking the Apocalypse
(2019)
This paper is concerned with the American TV series Mr Robot and its imaginative articulation of key theological and philosophical questions pertaining to authority, reality and belief. As a work of imagination and critique ...
Narrative and Experiment, Religion and Politics in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
(2019)
While most interpretations of Terrence Malick's 2011 The Tree of Life concentrate on the film's theological resonances, I focus here on The Tree of Life's political vision. I locate this vision in the fraught relationship ...
Music Review: U2, The Joshua Tree and Two Contrary States of Faith. The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Tour, Twickenham Stadium, UK: Sunday 9th July 2017
(2018)
A review and discussion of the 30th Anniversary Tour of The Joshua Tree in 2017 by Irish rock band U2, focussing on their second London show at Twickenham.
Totalitarian Opportunism. J. J. Connington's Nordenholt's Million (1923) and the appeal of dictatorship in interwar Britain
(2019)
J. J. Connington’s 1923 British disaster novel Nordenholt's Million is an extreme, proto fascist work that responds to the interwar context of economic decline and social unrest in Britain. It utilises an apocalyptic ...
This Voice Has Come for Your Sake
(2016)
The gospel of John confronts the problems of human finitude and separation from God and others. Its theological innovations push at the boundaries of time and space, invoking the senses as vehicles for healing separation. ...
Using Media in Religious Studies. Strategies of Representing Religion in Scholarly Approaches
(2017)
Compared to the broad and well established field of research on media within religions, the usage of media for representing religion in scholarly work – text, image, sound, material, speech, film etc. – is a rather neglected ...
Kritik, Aktivismus und Prospektivität.
(2019)
Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses ...