Publications
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Reading Bond Films through the Lens of “Religion”. Discourse of “the West and the Rest”
(2019)
Religion has been absent from the study of James Bond films. Similarly, James Bond has been absent from studies on religion and popular culture. This article aims to fill the gap by examining 25 Bond films through the lens ...
Punishment and Crime. The Reverse Order of Causality in The White Ribbon
(2018)
This article explores, within a sociological-psychological framework, the problematic moral emotions of spectators evoked by watching the film Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, DE/AT/FR/IT, 2009). As always ...
Rampant Lechers, Chaste Heroes. (De-)Sexualised Violence in Comic book Screen Adaptations
(2017)
Violence is a central element of comic book screen adaptations in both Hollywood (Marvel, DC) and Japan. Yet while sexual violence is openly shown in film versions of manga, coded sexualised violence dominates Western ...
Realistic Humanism: Luc Dardenne as a Philosopher and Filmmaker
(2016)
Luc Dardenne is not only a successful filmmaker together with his brother Jean-Pierre. He is also a stimulating philosopher who has reflected on the influence of Emmanuel Levinas on the brothers’ cinematic work. This article ...
Understanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Between Text and Other Media. Editorial
(2019)
The exceptional and yet very human life of Jesus has been represented in a vast breadth of forms, from the visual to the textual, in a kind of intertextual relationship that is highly complex, in that it outreaches an ...
Using Media to Teach Religious Studies. Reflections on Second-order Mediatisation of Religions
(2017)
In terms of media theories, teaching religious studies provides a second-order mediatisation of religious phenomena – a mediatisation of phenomena already mediatised by religious traditions. That tension needs to be reflected ...
Using Media in Religious Studies. Strategies of Representing Religion in Scholarly Approaches: Editorial
(2017)
Editorial of JRFM 2017, 3/2
The soundscape of Pasolini’S GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
(2019)
IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO (1964), by the Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, is one of the most interesting and widely acclaimed film representations of the life of Jesus. Its reception in the Catholic world has ...
(Re)Making a Difference
(2015)
This article presents and discusses how mediatisation as a theory can be used to analyse two commercial videos, one promoting the organisation Catholics Come Home and the other Coca Cola. A core question in the current ...
Between Erudition and Faith. Jean-Jacques Chifflet’s Tract on the Shroud of Besançon (1624)
(2019)
The shroud of Besançon, a large cloth considered being a precious relic, an “imprint” left by Christ’s body on his burial linen, knew a period of intense veneration and public debate from the early 16th century to the end ...
The Banality of Ghosts. Searching for Humanness with Joshua Oppenheimer in THE ACT OF KILLING
(2018)
In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in ...
Cross-media Transmission Processes: Marian Figures in TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (Pedro Almodóvar, ES 1999)
(2015)
This paper builds on aspects of the cultural studies perspective that understands art itself as a method of cultural analysis. This will be exemplified by focusing on how film as a cultural technique for framing and reframing ...
Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity. Captain America and the Winter Soldier in a Judaistic Perspective
(2017)
Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul – the transmigration ...
The End of Desire
(2020)
This article explores the soteriological significance of desire in Сталкер (STALKER, Andrei Tarkovsky, RU 1979). At the heart of the film, deep within a paranormal and psychosomatic frontier called the Zone, is a space ...
Emulating Science. The Rhetorical Figures of Creationism
(2017)
This article compares forms of visual argumentation in the scientific study of evolution and Young-Earth Creationism, arguing that secular forms of scientific representation have affected the way creationists visually ...
Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden?. The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam Trilogy
(2019)
In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret ...
Jerusalem between Political Interests and Religious Promise
(2020)
This article focuses on the opening ceremony of the new US-Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. By analysing a live transmission of the ceremony, it aims at showing how Jerusalem is constructed as a "holy city" through ...
Is Superman a God?
(2020)
Some Remarks on the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) in Early Modern Europe
(2019)
The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians ...
Someday our gods will be friends
(2020)
This article reflects on the recent tv-series ‘Vikings’ from a practical-theological perspective. We deal with the series as a serious expression of the relationship between film and religion. The narrative, reception, ...