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.

Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. This text thinks about the theoretical and pedagogical concerns involved with the intersection of film and religion in the classroom.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Teaching Religion and Film; PART I: Establishing Shot: Viewing the Field of Religion and Film; 1. What Are We Teaching When We Teach ''Religion and Film''?; 2. Teaching Religion and Film: A Fourth Approach; PART II: Film and the Teaching of Religious Traditions; 3. Teaching Biblical Tourism: How Sword-and-Sandal Films Clouded My Vision; 4. Designing a Course on Religion and Cinema in India; 5. Buddhism, Film, and Religious Knowing: Challenging the Literary Approach to Film; 6. The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film

7. Film and the Introduction to Islam Course8. Is It All about Love Actually? Sentimentality as Problem and Opportunity in the Use of Film for Teaching Theology and Religion; 9. Women, Theology, and Film: Approaching the Challenge of Interdisciplinary Teaching; PART III: The Religious Studies Approach; 10. Seeing Is Believing, but Touching's the Truth: Religion, Film, and the Anthropology of the Senses; 11. There Is No Spoon? Teaching The Matrix, Postperennialism, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism; 12. Teaching Film as Religion

13. Filmmaking and World Making: Re-Creating Time and Space in Myth and Film14. Introducing Theories of Religion through Film: A Sample Syllabus; PART IV: The Values Approach; 15. Touching Evil, Touching Good; 16. Teaching Ethics with Film: A Course on the Moral Agency of Women; 17. Searching for Peace in Films about Genocide; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-045061-4

9786611852016

0-19-971458-4

1-281-85201-5

OCLC:

299388427