Religion in Contemporary Thought and Cinema - Paragraph, Volume 42, Issue 3 (Paperback)

The special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political and cultural force, and its resurgence in a range of theoretical discourses, from postsecularism to New Atheism. Mirroring this theoretical and cultural turn, cinema across the world is renewing its acquaintance with religion as private practice, public display and political force and exploring overlapping material, spiritual and doctrinal concerns in the new millennium. This issue probes intersections between contemporary cinema and diverse theoretical, philosophical and theological engagements with religion. It compares cinema's capacity to present visual expressions of faith, evoke embodied experience and varied modalities of love, correlate earthly and divine realities and inspire belief and doubt with writings on religion and postsecularism. Contributors explore ideas about transcendence, vocation, affliction, love, doubt and forms of religious practice and expression that connect specific films with theoretical accounts that look beyond the secular.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Paragraph Special Issues
Release date:	October 2019
Editors:	Libby Saxton • Anat Pick
Dimensions:	231 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	134
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-6156-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4744-6156-5
Barcode:	9781474461566

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