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Film as Religion

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. Ed. Eric Mazur. Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO, 2011. 187-92.

Graven Images: Religion in Comics and Graphic Novels

Eds. A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer. New York: Continuum, 2010. (link)

'The Magic Circus of the Mind': Alan Moore’s Promethea and the Transformation of Consciousness through Comics

With J. Lawton Winslade. Graven Images: Religion in Comics and Graphic Novels. Eds. A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer. New York: Continuum, 2010. 274-91.

Gender Essentialism in Matriarchalist Utopian Fantasies: Are popular novels vehicles of sacred stories, or purely propaganda?

The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 11:2 (2009): 240-59. (abstract)

Cultural Borrowing/Cultural Appropriation: A Relationship Model for Respectful Borrowing

Thorn Magazine 2 (Mar 2009). (link)

'Story' Is Only Part of 'History': Re-evaluating the Work of Marija Gimbutas

Thorn Magazine 1 (Dec 2008).

Review of Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Theology and Cinema, by Gerard Loughlin

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 9 (Spring 2005). In this dense theological study, Loughlin flies in the face of many mainstream Westerners’ assumptions by asserting that sex and Christianity are not inherently opposed but are, in fact, a match made in heaven. Using popular film as a dialogue partner, Alien Sex develops a daring new Christian body theology that defends human sexuality -- whether hetero- or homo- -- as the sphere of life where we encounter the divine most powerfully. (link)

From Theological to Cinematic Criticism: Extricating the Study of Religion and Film from Theology

Religious Studies Review 30:4 (October 2004): 243-50. Reviews texts on religion and film from the past twenty years and advocates an approach to the subject that is not explicitly confessional, but also takes religious content seriously in a way secular cultural studies criticism often does not. (PDF)

Wrestling with Flesh, Wrestling with Spirit: The Painful Consequences of Dualism in The Last Temptation of Christ

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 8 (Fall 2004). The Last Temptation film presents an unorthodox, nonhierarchical dualism that has often led critics to unfairly condemn it for misogyny, among other sins. This offers an alternative interpretation of the film's dualism in the context of competing virtues, as well as evaluates its attempt to lift the Jesus story out of traditional Christianity. (link)

Between the Worlds: Liminality and Self-Sacrifice in Princess Mononoke

The Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (April 2004). Examines how liminality is portrayed as an enabling condition for holiness and peacemaking in the Japanese animated film. (link)

The Brake of Time: Corso's Bomb as Postmodern God(dess)

Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44:2 (Summer 2002): 211-28. Rpt. in The Beat Generation: A Gale Critical Companion. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 203-213. Features a new interpretation of Beat poet Gregory Corso's controversial poem "Bomb," contextualizing it in religious rather than political terms. (Project MUSE full text)