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 ...