Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-347
ISSN 1743-887X (print); 1743-888 (online)
"This issue is based on a workshop, Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World, which we co-organized on June, 16–17, 2005 at the University of Amsterdam. The idea for this workshop was generated in the context of our research program, Modern Mass Media, Religion and the Imagination of Communities. The program has been generously sponsored as a so-called Pioneer program between 2000–2006 by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (for more information, see http://www.pscw.uva.nl/media-religion). The articles published in this special issue have been rewritten in the aftermath of this event." (Page 149)
Guest Editors’ Preface / Stephen Hughes and Birgit Meyer, 149–153
Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies / Birgit Meyer, 155–181
Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires: Popular Video Films and the Propagation of Religion in Northern Nigeria / Matthias Krings, 183–205
Mythologicals and Modernity: Contesting Silent Cinema in South India / Stephen Hughes 207–235
Devotional Transformation: Miracles, Mechanical Artifice, and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema / Ravi Vasudevan, 237–257
Religious Cinematics: The Immediate Body in the Media of Film / S. Brent Plate, 259–275
Insight, Secrecy, Beasts, and Beauty: Struggles over the Making of a Ghanaian Documentary on “African Traditional Religion” / Marleen de Witte, 277–300
Priests and Stars: Candomblé, Celebrity Discourses, and the Authentication of Religious Authority in Bahia’s Public Sphere / Mattijs van de Port, 301–324
Breathing into the Heart of the Matter: Why Padre Marcelo Needs No Wings / Maria José Alves de Abreu, 325–349
Being a Christian the Catholic Way: Protestant and Catholic Versions of the Jesus Film and the Evangelization of Poland / Esther Peperkamp, 351–374
Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies / Birgit Meyer, 155–181
Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires: Popular Video Films and the Propagation of Religion in Northern Nigeria / Matthias Krings, 183–205
Mythologicals and Modernity: Contesting Silent Cinema in South India / Stephen Hughes 207–235
Devotional Transformation: Miracles, Mechanical Artifice, and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema / Ravi Vasudevan, 237–257
Religious Cinematics: The Immediate Body in the Media of Film / S. Brent Plate, 259–275
Insight, Secrecy, Beasts, and Beauty: Struggles over the Making of a Ghanaian Documentary on “African Traditional Religion” / Marleen de Witte, 277–300
Priests and Stars: Candomblé, Celebrity Discourses, and the Authentication of Religious Authority in Bahia’s Public Sphere / Mattijs van de Port, 301–324
Breathing into the Heart of the Matter: Why Padre Marcelo Needs No Wings / Maria José Alves de Abreu, 325–349
Being a Christian the Catholic Way: Protestant and Catholic Versions of the Jesus Film and the Evangelization of Poland / Esther Peperkamp, 351–374
