Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Religion and Media
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During February my office door was covered in images of angels in popular culture. For March I’ve decided to go with warrior nuns in comic book culture. So my door now looks like this. I may add some more to it, but I think with The Magdalena, Warrior Nun Areala, The Sisterhood and Chrono Crusade…
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A link from a while back, but I was reminded about it today when talking to one of our PhD students who has the essay “Sacred Men and Sacred Goats: Mimetic Theory in Levitical and Passion Intertext” in this recent book: Bloomsbury – Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. See – Human Sacrifice, Your New Name…
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I never really watched the 1990s X-Men cartoon series, but I might go back to it now having discovered this snippet of God-talk in it. Would be interested to see what other examples of religion and spirituality were found in the show, and if so, how they were portrayed.
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I’m currently working on turning my conference paper on theology, angels and vampires into a journal article and decided, having been quite bored last Friday afternoon, to move on from 2012 when I covered my office door with cartoons to creating for February an angels in popular culture display. So here it is. Hoping it…
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A couple of articles related to creating worlds to inhabit in fiction and popular culture. The first, drawn to my attention by a colleague who knows I’m in vampires in popular culture mode at the moment, talks about world-building within the Twilight novels and books and some intersections with religion and spirituality in those worlds.…
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I’m in the process of collecting links to online resources around faith, spirituality and film. The following link has an extensive list of places that might be a helpful start for doing that. Movie Theology :: Movie Reviews & Resources :: Gordon Matties.
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Via Rachel Wagner: Religion in Film – A List of Films for the Religious Studies Classroom : Filmwell The 50 Most Important Religion Films Of All Time See also: Greenflame» Blog Archive » Faith films Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible and Film – Telegraph