Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-04-72758-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 573 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion

The Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television contains twenty-three chapters on a variety of religions and religious phenomena, focusing on how they are depicted in film and television. Methodological considerations and academic debates concerning the effectiveness of popular cultural media in communicating information about religions and spiritualities are examined, and the films and television series are situated in political, social, geographical, and historical contexts. The authors are committed to open, serious, and scholarly work that accurately reflects the affective, entertainment, and imaginative dimensions of visual pop culture forms, while providing accurate and up to date information about the religious groups and trends they research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano

Cusack, Carole M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Carole M. Cusack, Ph.D. (1996) University of Sydney, is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published a variety of articles and books in religious studies, including Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010).

Venetia Laura Delano RobertsonPh.D. (2017), University of Sydeny, is an independent scholar with a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Sydney. She writes about the intersection of popular culture, new media, alternative spirituality, and gender theory.

Contributors are: Zoe Alderton, Cato Christensen, George D. Chryssides, Andrew Crome, Carole M. Cusack, Ethan Doyle White, David Feltmate, Ioannis Gaitanidis, Eric Michael Mazur, Elisha McIntyre, Elizabeth Olayiwola, Torjer A. Olsen, Erik A.W. Östling, Raymond Radford, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, Bettina E. Schmidt, Mairead Shanahan, Francisco Santos Silva, Sofia Sjö, Stefania Travagnin, Ulrike Wiethaus, Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, Humairah Zainal, Benjamin E. Zeller.