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
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
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Somehow I’d missed this. Would have been good for one of the kid’s movie projects.
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Definitely a problem we’ve run into, where a child of ours has been asked to do a school assignment based on their use of social networking, while at the same time all or most of the children in that class are too young to meet the age requirements for the service. On the one hand, the school tries to imbue students with some kind of value system that rejects lying and unethical behaviour (according to the norms they work with in the school’s ethos), while on the other hand assuming those values don’t apply here. Mixed messages all round.
Anyway, here’s how it panned out for one set of parents. See TidBITS Opinion: How COPPA Teaches Children to Lie.
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Peter Horsfield mentioned that podcasts from the recent symposium on Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Monash University) are now online. Sounded interesting when I had a chat with the organiser, Danielle Kirby, back in August.
See Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Symposium, Arts, Monash University.
Sadly, I couldn’t get over there (it was also the weekend of the RWC). Will listen to the podcasts though.
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The School of Theology at the University of Auckland has a new blog up and going highlighting current news, teaching and research.
Check it out at Auckland Theology, Biblical Studies, et al.
(Useful for me to keep up with what’s going on at the School while I’m away on study leave).
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Really good article by Rachel Wagner over at Ithaca College on her journey into academia and the financial and other stuggles pressures that entailed (and continues to entails) for her. Sobering stuff.
See Bootstrapping My Way Into the Ivory Tower – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
BTW – I’m looking forward to her new book Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality coming out real soon now. Should be an interesting read.
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Yep, this works for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg
(with John Barrowman, Catherine Tate and David Tennant)
Hat tip to: Dr Who – Maggi Dawn.
(See also – Doctor Who – Cast & Crew Special – YouTube)
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Studies in Australasian Cinema – Calls for papers
6.1: Imaging Religion and Spirituality in Australasian Film
Editors: Anthony Lambert and Holly Randell-MoonIssues of spirituality and religion have long between central to the social, cultural and political rituals of many countries and communities within the Australasian-Pacific Island and Oceanic regions. Religion and secularism have also emerged as intense sites of geopolitical conflict in Australasia since the initiation of a now decade-long ‘war on terror’. Cinema plays a vital role in the ways in which community, citizenship, nationality and morality are imagined, normalised and debated. In this special issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema we are seeking papers that focus on filmic engagements with and representations of spirituality and religion. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Representations of all forms religious and spiritual practices whether institutionally, ethnically or individually oriented, in different genres and conventions of filmmaking, e.g. documentary, fiction etc.
- Representations on any aspect of religion and spirituality from within Australasian/ Pacific Island nations or by filmmakers from across the region.
- Differences between indigenous and non-indigenous conceptions of spirituality in film production and representation
- Postcolonial spirituality and religion in film production
- Filmic engagements with questions of morality and ethics or issues not normally considered as being within the purview of ‘religion’
- The influence of secular epistemologies and practices on the economies or conventions of filmmaking
- Film, spirituality and tourism
- Post 9/11 conceptions of religious affiliation and difference in Australasia
- Religious events, their mediation and/or representation in film
- Religion and politics/ the state, including political events and their influence on filmic representations of religion and spirituality in local, national or international productions
‘Imaging religion and spirituality in Australasian film’ will be edited by Anthony Lambert and Holly Randell-Moon. Enquiries in the first instance should be made via email to either anthony.lambert@mq.edu.au or holly.randell-moon@mq.edu.au
Final submissions to this issue close on Friday December 16, 2011.
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Ah, satire, my old friend, I’ve missed you.