Publications
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TV Series Review. HERRENS VEJE (RIDE UPON THE STORM, created by Adam Price)
(2020)
For nine generations, all men of the Krogh family have been pastors. Johannes’s two sons, Christian (Simon Sears) and August (Morten Hee Andersen), were also meant to follow their ancestors’ path, but ... Although the ...
Trauma and Conformity
(2018)
This article discusses the psychological aspects of two documentaries about violence: THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer and DAS RADIKAL BÖSE (THE RADICAL EVIL) by Stefan Ruzowitzky. These are the concepts ‘Trauma’ ...
Orientalische Bilder und Klänge
(2021)
Als sich Ende der 1920er Jahre in den USA und Europa der Tonfilm durchsetzte, erkannten ägyptische Geschäftsleute dessen Potenzial für die arabische Welt. Sie erwarben innovative Tontechnik aus Deutschland und schickten ...
Revisiting the Relevance of Conceptualism of Godard’s film
(2018)
Jean-Luc Godard’s filmmaking is analyzed as a conceptual art, as in agreement with his most accomplished role as a film critic, not a classical filmmaker. In his 1970 manifesto, Godard argues that 1) we must make political ...
Marriage and its representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy (1934-1945). Stanley Cavell, the concept of skepticism and Kierkegaard's legacy
(2018)
This article explores the questions of marriage and divorce as discussed by Stanley Cavell in his study of Classical Hollywood comedies, dubbing what he considered as a popular subgenre of the American comedy of the thirties ...
The Problem of Evil in DC Universe Animated Movies, 2007–2016. DC Multiverse, an Ironic Illustration of Leibniz’s Theodicy?
(2017)
This article explores the question of evil and its metaphysical and moral implications in a series of animated movie adaptations of the DC Universe produced since 2006. The contemporary evolution of the medium, called the ...
The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Early Cinema: A Complicated Relationship
(2019)
When at the onset of the twentieth century, the influential German theologian Albert Schweitzer published a historiographical account of the ‘historical Jesus’, a discrete number of silent films devoted to the life and ...
Postlude. “And God Is Never Far Away”. Or the Sum of this Issue
(2020)
This Postlude or Epilogue works as a summary of the issues insights and opens a new perspective at the end.
Apocalypse as critical dystopia in modern popular music
(2019)
The last book of the New Testament has inspired countless narratives and cultural productions. In the realm of popular music the Apocalypse was embraced as synonymous of imminent catastrophe, generating a dystopian discourse. ...
Approaching Religious Symbols in the Public Space: Contemporary Art and Museums as Places of Negotiation?
(2015)
This essay responds to Sigrid Schade’s contribution by outlining the multilayered meaning-making processes deployed by the use of religious symbolism in visual culture. Referring in a concise way to a selected example of ...
Charivari or the Historicising of a Question. The Irrelevance of Romantic Love for the Audio-Visual Performance of Marriage in Bern in the 18th and 19th Century
(2018)
Citing Oscar Wilde, the editors of this volume ask the question “who, being loved, is poor?” in their call for papers. On a meta-theoretical level, this article aims at contextualising this question and its citation socially. ...
Editorial: The Relevance of Comics and their Screen Adaptations
(2017)
Editorial of JRFM 2017, 3/1 : Drawn Stories, Moving Images. Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations
Film review: ON BODY AND SOUL (Ildikó Enyedi). HU 2017
(2017)
Interview with Ildikó Enyedi, directrice of ON BODY AND SOUL (HU 2017)
Losers, Food, and Sex: Clerical Masculinity in the BBC Sitcom Rev.
(2016)
Clerical masculinities, much like their lay/secular counterparts, often appear unchanging because they are the products of naturalization processes. Clerical masculinities, however, are far from being stable but the live ...
Prelude. "You Need a Big God". Fascinating Interactions Between Music and Religion
(2020)
The Praelude "You Need a Big God" tries to approach the thematic field of religion and popular music using a variety of music video clips to highlight the manifold interactions and interrelations between popular music and ...
Constructing Space, Changing Reality of Israel through Film
(2019)
This paper investigates the ways in which filmmakers through cinematic space frame reality, mediating the issues of conflict and reconciliation, religion and identity(ies) within Israel. Cinematic space depicts and expresses ...
Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
(2017)
There are many ways to think about religion and popular culture. One method is to ask where and when we see what might be commonly understood as “religious tradition(s)” explicitly on display. Another is to think about ...
Bridal mysticism, virtual marriage and masculinity in the Moravian hymnbook “Kleines Brüdergesangbuch”
(2018)
This article discusses the connection of virtual interaction, masculinity and bridal mysticism in the Moravian hymnbook "Kleines Brüdergesangbuch" (1754). Hereto, the motifs inherent in the hymnbook are examined according ...
Bridging Real and Virtual: A Spiritual Challenge
(2017)
The question of how to bridge virtuality and reality intensified in 2016 with the release of several consumer products. The article begins by reviewing two anxieties about virtual reality raised at a 1999 conference. To ...
Book review: Friedhelm Hartenstein/Michael Moxter, Hermeneutik des Bilderverbots. Exegetische und systematisch-theologische Annäherungen
(2017)
Published in Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2016, 360 pages, ISBN: 978-3-374-03060-6
Book Review. Richard Walsh (ed.), T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film
(2020)
"The strength of the Bible lies in the fact that it is a good screenplay,” said Godard once. The T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film edited by Richard Walsh demonstrates that Godard was absolutely right. The book is ...
Intercultural Perspectives on DAS RADIKAL BÖSE and THE ACT OF KILLING. Similarities and Dissimilarities in Coping with Trauma in Indonesia and Germany, in Southeast Asia and Europe
(2018)
This article offers a close reading of DAS RADIKAL BÖSE (RADICAL EVIL, Stefan Ruzowitzky, DE 2013) and THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID / USA 2012) – two very different films – that nevertheless provide images ...
Interlude. "But are as the angels which are in heaven" (Mark 12:25). Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE
(2020)
The American singer and songwriter Dorian Electra is a queer phenomenon. Their dandy appearance – the latest album is called Flamboyant (2017) – goes hand in hand with the criticism of toxic masculinity and gender binarism. ...
Interlude. Combating Gender Norms with a Lipstick-Gun. Lady Gaga's JESUS
(2020)
"Judas" is a track on Lady Gaga's album Born this way which was released in 2011. Given that it attracted a lot of attention not only in popular media but also in several academic works, this might indicate the potential ...
Shadows of the Bat. Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan
(2017)
The superhero narrative is typically premised on the conflict between the hero and the villain, the mythical struggle between good and evil. It therefore promotes a Manichaean worldview where good and evil are clearly ...
Voicing the Technological Body: Some Musicological Reflections on Combinations of Voice and Technology in Popular Music
(2016)
The article deals with interrelations of voice, body and technology in popular music from a musicological perspective. It is an attempt to outline a systematic approach to the history of music technology with regard to ...
Visionary Critique: Gender, Self and Relationship in Rosetta and Two Days, One Night
(2016)
The films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne stand out for their complex, multi-dimensional female and male characters whose representation disrupts gender stereotypes in numerous ways, both in how the characters themselves ...
The Body and Voice of God in the Hebrew Bible
(2016)
In both Judaism and Christianity the question as to whether God has a body is sensitive and contested terrain. The answer now tends to be ‘no’ and yet the most straightforward interpretation of numerous Hebrew Bible passages ...
Biblical Narratives in INTERSTELLAR (US/GB 2014)
(2020)
The present paper examines the presence of biblical narratives and myths in contemporary cultural productions based on an analysis of the science fiction film Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, US 2014). Interstellar follows ...
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 ...