In Memory of Michael Bird

1941-2003

The Journal
of Religion and Film

Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Volume 7, Number 2 (October 2003)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
  by Caroline T. Schroeder

• “Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films
  by Mary Ann Beavis

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek
  By John S. Schultes

• Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy
  by Rachel Wagner

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  by J. Heath Atchley

• Reassessing The Matrix/Reloaded
  by Julien R. Fielding

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films
  by Frances Flannery-Dailey

• Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters
  by Richard S. Ascough

• The Believer - John Martin

• Bruce Almighty - Julien R. Fielding

• Equilibrium - Michael Karounos

• Sylvia - J. Sage Elwell

• The Matrix: Reloaded - Diana Walsh-Pasulka

  Notices

• Exploring Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ

• Call for Papers - Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

We wish to thank the following journals for advertising our call for papers