Nourishing Faith Through Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nourishing Faith Through Fiction write by John R. May. This book was released on 2001. Nourishing Faith Through Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of how the films we see and the books we read affect our faith and our view of the world. With the Apostles' Creed as his foundation, author May interprets popular works such as The Grapes of Wrath, Cool Hand Luke, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Saving Private Ryan through the lens of religious faith.
The Writer and the Cross
The Writer and the Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Writer and the Cross write by Darren J.N. Middleton. This book was released on 2022-06-27. The Writer and the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spiritually engaged readers commonly look toward fiction to better understand the depth of a faithful life, and Christians are no exception. Many followers of Jesus value beautifully written, deftly characterized and pulse-quickening literary art that seems more satisfying than dry, tedious doctrinal textbooks. This book surveys 12 pieces of historical fiction that feature notable Christian thinkers. They include an illustrated children's book about St. Irenaeus of Lyons, a novel about Martin Luther's Reformation, a screenplay focusing on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and even a story about Pope Francis narrated in popular manga style. Rather than arcane literary analyses, this book provides thoughtful and sometimes painful interviews with the authors of the covered works. Most interviewees are little known or emerging writers. Some have published their work with a church or denominational press, others with a major publishing empire or popular print-on-demand platforms. Storytellers reflect on their literary choices and the contexts of their writing, sharing what modern Christians can learn from historical religious fiction.
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film write by John C. Lyden. This book was released on 2009-05-07. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film brings together a lively and experienced team of contributors to introduce students to the key topics in religion and film and to investigate the ways in which the exciting subject of religion and film is developing for more experienced scholars. Divided into four parts, the Companion: analyzes the history of the interaction of religion and film, through periods of censorship as well as appreciation of the medium studies religion-in-film, examining how the world’s major religions, as well as Postcolonial, Japanese and New Religions, are depicted by and within films uses diverse methodologies to explore religion and film, such as psychoanalytical, theological and feminist approaches, and audience reception analyzes religious themes in film, including Redemption, the Demonic, Jesus or Christ Figures, Heroes and Superheroes considers films as diverse as The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix, Star Wars and Groundhog Day. This definitive book provides an accessible resource to this emerging field and is an indispensable guide to religion and film for students of Religion, Film Studies, and beyond.
Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Deep Focus (Engaging Culture) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deep Focus (Engaging Culture) write by Robert K. Johnston. This book was released on 2019-03-19. Deep Focus (Engaging Culture) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.
Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion
Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion write by Steve Nolan. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats the two disciplines as genuine equals, by regarding both liturgy and film as representational media. Steve Nolan argues that, in each case, subjects identify with a represented 'other' which joins them into a narrative where they become participants in an ideological 'reality'. Finding many current approaches to religious film analysis lacking, Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion explores the film theory other writers ignore, particularly that mix of psychoanalysis, Marxism and semiotics - often termed Screen theory - that attempts to understand how cinematic representation shapes spectator identity. Using translations and commentary on Lacan not originally available to Screen theorists, Nolan returns to Lacan's contribution to psychoanalytic film theory and offers a sustained application to religious practice, examining several 'priest films' and real-life case study to expose the way liturgical representation shapes religious identity. Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice.
