Bradatan / Ungureanu Religion in Contemporary European Cinema

The Postsecular Constellation
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-86017-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema does. The book explores the mutual influences, structural analogies, shared dilemmas, as well as the historical roots of such a "post-secular constellation" as seen through the lens of European cinema. Bringing together scholars from film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradatan, Costica

Ungureanu, Camil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dealing (Visibly) in "Things not Seen" Costica Bradatan 1. Deconstructing Christianity in Contemporary European Cinema: Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-enclosure Catherine Wheatley 2. ‘Casting Fire onto the Earth’: The Holy Fool in Russian Cinema Alina Birzache 3. The New Aesthetics of Muslim Spirituality in Turkey: Yusuf’s Trilogy By Semih Kaplanoglu Asuman Suner 4. Pasolini: Religion and Sacrifice Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 5. Entangled in God’s Story. A Reading of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance Costica Bradatan 6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Sound and the Neighbour in Kieslowski, Haneke, Martel Paul Coates 7. Bruno Dumont’s Cinema: Nihilism and the Disintegration of the Christian Imaginary John Caruana 8. Religion against Religion in Lars von Trier Camil Ungureanu 9. The Banalities of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror Nathan Abrams 10. Postsecular Ethics: The Case of Iñárritu’s Biutiful Robert Sinnerbrink 11. Understanding Religion and Film in ‘Post-secular’ Russia Jolyon Mitchell Final Remarks: What is the Use of Postsecularism? Conceptual Clarifications and Two Illustrations Camil Ungureanu

Über Autor(innen)

Costica Bradatan is Assistant Professor of Honors at Texas Tech University, US

Camil Ungureanu is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain