Chapters in this book
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Act Two. What Makes Popular Christian Music “Popular”?. A Comparison Between Current US-American Contemporary Christian Music and German Popular Christian Music Using the Examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester
(2020)
The article discusses the question “What makes Popular Christian Music ‘popular’?” by applying different (competing) concepts of the term “popular” so as to showcase by which criteria Popular Christian Music (labelled as ...
Act Three. Heavy Metal Bricolage. Religious Imagery and “Religionized” Visual Language in Music Videos
(2020)
Popular music’s use of visual media makes its listeners also its viewers. From concert posters, tickets stubs and stage design to music videos, CD covers and clothes, material visual products are utilized by bands and fans ...
Act One. Comfort the Waste Places, Defend the Violated Earth. An Ecofeminist Reading of Isaiah 51:1-52:6 and Tracy Chapman's "The Rape of the World".
(2020)
This paper compares the personification of Zion in Isaiah 51:1–52:6 as a mother and daughter with Tracy Chapman's 1995 song "The rape of the world" where the earth is portrayed as mother. I will explore the use of rape ...
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 ...
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)
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, ...
Interlude. Paths of Destiny. Rosalía’s Spiritual Car Ride in AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE
(2020)
A critical review of Rosalia's music video for "Aunque es de noche" that focusses on media-transmitted, personal spirituality, female strength and the amalgamation of religious imageries.
Parabolic Transcendence in Time and Narrative
(2020)
Subjectivity, memory, identity, and the invisible connections between individuals are all conspicuous within filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two award-winning indie sci-fi films, Primer (Shane Carruth, USA, 2004) and Upstream ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
