Teaching religion and film / edited by Gregory J. Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watkins, Gregory J.

Series:

AAR teaching religious studies

AAR teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xiv, 309 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: Teaching Religion and Film / Gregory J. Watkins 3

Part I Establishing Shot: Viewing the Field of Religion and Film

1 What Are We Teaching When We Teach "Religion and Film"? / William L. Blizek, Michele Desmarais 17

2 Teaching Religion and Film: A Fourth Approach / Conrad Ostwalt 35

Part II Film and the Teaching of Religious Traditions

3 Teaching Biblical Tourism: How Sword-and-Sandal Films Clouded My Vision / Alice Bach 57

4 Designing a Course on Religion and Cinema in India / Gayatri Chatterjee 77

5 Buddhism, Film, and Religious Knowing: Challenging the Literary Approach to Film / Francisca Cho 117

6 The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film / Christopher Deacy 129

7 Film and the Introduction to Islam Course / Amir Hussain 141

8 Is It All about Love Actually? Sentimentality as Problem and Opportunity in the Use of Film for Teaching Theology and Religion / Clive Marsh 155

9 Women, Theology, and Film: Approaching the Challenge of Interdisciplinary Teaching / Gaye Williams Ortiz 165

Part III The Religious Studies Approach

10 Seeing Is Believing, but Touching's the Truth: Religion, Film, and the Anthropology of the Senses / Richard M. Carp 177

11 There Is No Spoon? Teaching The Matrix, Postperennialism, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism / Gregory Grieve 189

12 Teaching Film as Religion / John C. Lyden 209

13 Filmmaking and World Making: Re-Creating Time and Space in Myth and Film / S. Brent Plate 219

14 Introducing Theories of Religion through Film: A Sample Syllabus / Gregory J. Watkins 233

Part IV The Values Approach

15 Touching Evil, Touching Good / Irena S. M. Makarushka 253

16 Teaching Ethics with Film: A Course on the Moral Agency of Women / Ellen Ott Marshall 265

17 Searching for Peace in Films about Genocide / Jolyon Mitchell 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195335989

0195335988

OCLC:

174138802