If one aspect of religiosity in America is the belief in America, then scholars of religion would do well to…
Everything Everywhere All at Once as religious experience
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Documentary project on the faith of New York City
Faith in the Five Boroughs is a documentary film project that focuses on the religious lives of New York City…
Memorizing the Qur’an at age 10
From noted war correspondent-turned filmmaker Greg Barker, a new documentary, Koran by Heart, which premiers August 1.
The way of the brother
S. Brent Plate offers a new reading of Terrance Malick's The Tree of Life, complicating the either/or dualism constructed in…
“A Film Unfinished”
New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis reviews "A Film Unfinished," an analysis of the unfinished Nazi Propaganda "Das Ghetto"…
The religion of Avatar
James Cameron's new blockbuster film Avatar has inspired a flurry of commentary about its theological implications.
The butterfly’s unconscious
Youth Without Youth takes us through a strange loop that demands us both cognitively and visually to ask similar questions…
The third rose
"Youth Without Youth" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Gun violence, sexual congress, female nudity,…
Repossessing the past
By some sort of happy coincidence—or to use the surrealist term referenced by Jeremy Biles, “objective chance”—I watched Youth Without…
Realizing Eliade’s Dream
Francis Ford Coppola has made Eliade whole again. He has given him back to us. Youth Without Youth is a…