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Amma n Movies: An Introduction - Maria-Priska Ondrich (8,2)

Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion - Caroline T. Schroeder (7, 2)

Andrei Rublev: Religious Epiphany in Art - Nigel Savio D'Sa (3,2)

“Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films - Mary Ann Beavis (7, 2)

Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film - Joel W. Martin (4,1)

Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek - John S. Schultes (7, 2)

The Apocalyptic Cosmology of Star Wars - John Lyden (4,1)

Apocalyptic Visions - Amir Hussain (4,1)

Apocalyptic Visions - Beyond Corporeality - Ann Pearson (2,3)

The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall - Bill Blizek andRon Burke (2,1)

The Apostle: A Psychiatric Appraisal - Carl Greiner (3,2)

Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero - John Fitch, III (9,1)

Are the Gospel Passion Accounts Anti-Jewish? - Dennis Hamm, S.J. (8,special issue1)

Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn - Conrad Ostwalt (4,1)

The Arrest and Sentencing of Jesus: A Historical Reconstruction - Phillip A. Cunningham (8,special issue1)

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Babette's Feast: A Religious Film - Wendy M. Wright (1, 2)

"Beautiful Necessities:" American Beauty and the Idea of Freedom - David L. Smith (6, 2)

Between the Worlds: Liminality and Self-Sacrifice in Princess Mononoke - Christine Hoff Kraemer (8, 1)

Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy - Rachel Wagner (7,2)

Biblical Allusions, Biblical Illusions: Hollywood Blockbuster and Scripture- Nicola Denzey (8, special issue 1)

Biblical Scholarship and the Passion Surrounding The Passion of the Christ - Frances Flannery-Dailey (8, special issue 1)

The Birth of a Nation as American Myth - Richard C. Salter (8,.2)

Black Song, White Song: Salvation Through The Radio in The Apostle and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - Michelle Cormier (6, 2)

Blessed Broken Bodies: Exploring Redemption in Central Station and Breaking the Waves - Jeanette Reedy Solano (8,1)

A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Popular Polarized Reaction to Gibson’s The Passion - Kelly Denton-Borhaug (9,1)

Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys - Frances Flannery-Dailey (4,1)

Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema - James L. Ford (4,2)

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Capturing C. S. Lewis’s “Mere” Christianity: Another Look at Shadowlands - Mary Dodson (6,1)

Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, Imperial, and Religious Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis - Catherine Craft-Fairchild (9,1)

The Catholic Imagination in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz - Christopher Garbowski (5,2)

Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies - Jeffrey H. Mahan (6,1)

Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes - André Bazin (translation and edit by Bert Cardullo) (6, 2)

Cinematic Illustrations in Christian Theology - James S. Spiegel (6, 2)

The Christ Figure in Breaking the Waves - Linda A. Mercadante (5,1)

Christ's Passion on Stage: The Traditional Melodrama of Deicide - Gordon R. Mork (8, special issue 1)

Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges: Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ - John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D (8, special issue 1)

A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson - Brannon M. Hancock (9,2)

The Construction of a Christ-figure within the 1956 and 1923 Versions of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments - Anton Karl Kozlovic (10,1)

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Daniel and The Sonnenscheins: Biblical Cycles in István Szabó's Film Sunshine - Vladimir Tumanov (8,2)

The Day the Earth Stood Still: 1950s Sci-Fi, Religion and the Alien - By Matthew Etherden (9,2)

The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema -Kelly J. Wyman (8,2)

Dharma Blues - Robert Castle (6,1)

Diary of a Country Priest: The Transcendent on Film - Wanda Avila (10,2)

Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar - Mark Goodacre (3,2)

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Editorials: (1,1); (1,2); (2,1); (2,2); (2,3); (3,1); (3,2); (4,1); (4,2), (5,2), (6,1), (7,1)

The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves - Kyle Keefer and Tod Linafelt (2,1)

Epiphany of the Throne-Chariot: Merkabah Mysticism and the Film Contact - Antonio D. Sison (9,1)

Esther and The Mexican - Guy Matalon (5,1)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence - David L. Smith (9,1)

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Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station - Donna Bowmana (5,1)

Fall, Creation, and Redemption in Heil LaBute's The Shape of Things - Dr. Duane Olson (8, 1)

Fantasy Verses Redemption: Religious Possibility in Little Voice - Christopher Deacy (4,2)

Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play - Mary Ann Beavis (4,2)

Fecundity and Almodóvar? Sexual Ethics and the Specter of Catholicism - Christopher McMahon (10,2)

Film Depictions of Judas - Kim Paffenroth (5,2)

Filming Jesus: Between Authority and HeresyPaul V. M. Flesher and Robert Torry (8, special issue 1)

From Holy Aliens to Cyborg Saviours: Biblical Subtexts in Four Science Fiction Films - Anton Karl Kozlovic (5,2)

From Navy Seals to The Siege - Rubina Ramji (9,2)

From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies - Richard Blake (6, 2)

From Superman to Brahman: The Religious Shift of The Matrix Mythology - Jeffery Wittung and Daniel Bramer (10,2)

From "The Ten Commandments" to the Decalogue - John M. Grondelski (7, 1)

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Gibson's Passion: A Case Study in Media Manipulation? - Mark Silk (8, special issue 1)

The God Behind the Screen: Pleasantville & The Truman Show - Linda A. Mercadante (5,2)

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He is the One: The Matrix Trilogy’s Postmodern Movie Messiah - Mark D. Stucky (9,2)

History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion - Paula Fredriksen (8, special issue 1)

"Holocaust Laughter?" A German Response to Punch Me in the Stomach - Tania Oldenhage (1,2)

The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) - Anton Karl Kozlovic (6, 2)

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I Dream, Therefore I Am: What Dreams May Come - Susan L. Schwartz (4,1)

I, Robot: You Gotta Have Heart - Richard Curran Trussell (9,2)

Images of God in the Movies - Andrew M Greeley (1,1)

The Invisible Body of God: Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man - Melissa Conroy(8, 1)

'It All Happens Here:' Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant - Simon J. Taylor (7, 1)

It’s Not Just a Job, It’s a Calling: The Redemption of Soldiering as Religious Vocation in Saving Private Ryan - Marc T. Newman (10,2)

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Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus - Adele Reinhartz (2,2)

Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard - Tony Michael and Ken Derry (5,1)

Judas the Film: Storytellers Then and Now - John Dart (8, special issue 1)

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Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite - Jean Schuler (1,2)

Knowledge and Mortality in Black Runner and Genesis 2-3 - Kyle Keefer (9,2)

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Mystic River: A Parable of Christianity's Dark Side - Charlene P. E. Burns (8, 1)

Moses and the Reel Exodus - G. Andrew Tooze (7, 1)

Magnolia and the Signs of the Times: A Theological Reflection -Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare (4,2)

The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic - Matthew McEver (2,2)

Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Able: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4 - Gregory Allen Robbins (1,1)

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Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie - Julien R. Fielding (7, 1)

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An Orthodox Perspective on Gibson’s The Passion of Christ - Oliver Herbel (8,2)

Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film - Eve L. Mullen (2,2)

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The Passion Re-Cut: If “It Is As It Was”, Why the Redaction? - Clodagh M. Weldon (10,2)

Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre - Adele Reinhartz (8, special issue 1)

Performing Selves/Performing as Self: Autobiographical Films on Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors - Jennifer Levi (3,2)

Perfumed Nightmare and Negative Experiences of Contrast: Third Cinema as Filmic Interpretation of Schillebeeck - Antonio Sison (6,1)

A Picture's Worth: Teaching Religion and Film by Irena S. M. Makarushka (2,3)

Picturing the Way in Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? - Michael Gillespie (1,1)

Portraying the Quest for Buddhist Widsom?: A Comparative Study of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Geoff Baker (10,1)

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Reassessing The Matrix/Reloaded - Julien R. Fielding. (7, 2)

Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films - Frances Flannery-Dailey (7, 2)

Report from Sundance 2003: Religion in Indpendent Film - Elyse D. Sara (7,1)

Report from Sundance 2000:Religion in Independent Film - Greg Watkins (4,1)

Religion and Violence in Popular Film - Bryan Stone (3,1)

Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film- William L. Blizek (3,1)

Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination - Gordon Matties (2,3)

Religion and Popular Movies - Conrad Ostwalt (2,3)

Redressing Jewish Difference in Tania Modleski's Cinema and the Dark Continent - Laura Levitt (1,2)

The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror - Carl B. Greiner (1,1)

Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film - William L. Blizek (8,1)

Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film - JR & F Editors (9,1)

Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film - JR & F Editors and Beth Ritter (10,1)

Religion, Theology and Film in a Postmodern Age: A Response to John Lyden - Clive Marsh (2,1)

Religious Faith and Science in Contact - Bryan P. Stone (2,2)

Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiguous Space of the Victimage Model - Paul Graham (9,2)

Ritual, Music, Sociability and Censure: Making a Film on Sufi Dhikr in Egypt - Valerie J. Hoffman (2,1)

Robert Zemeckis’s Contact as a Late-Twentieth Century Paradiso - Gregory Sadlek (5,2)

Romans, Greeks, and Jews: The World of Jesus and the Disciples - Sidnie White Crawford (8, special issue 1)

Rosetta Stone: A Consideration of the Dardenne Brothers’ Rosetta - Bert Cardullo (6, 1)

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The Sanctification of Fear: Images of the Religious in Horror Films - Bryan P. Stone (5,2)

Scripture on the Silver Screen - Adele Reinhartz (3,1)

Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe - Catharine Walker Bergström(9,1)

Sectarian Catholicism and Mel Gibson - Michael G. Lawler (8, special issue 1)

Seduction by Visual Image - Barbara De Concini (2,3)

Seeing and Being Seen: Distinctively Filmic & Religious Elements in Film - Greg Watkins (3,2)

Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World - Tod Linafelt and S. Brent Plate (7, 1)

Servant of the Story: Judas as Tragic Hero in Film - Kaile Shilling (8,2)

Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away" - James W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura

Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament - Mary Ann Beavis (8,2)

Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters - Richard S. Ascough (7, 2)

Superman as Christ-Figure: The American Pop Culture Movie Messiah - Anton Karl Kozlovic (6,1)

The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited - Mary Ann Beavis (5,1)

Stillness in Motion: The Sleeping Man of Oguri Kohei - Linda C. Ehrlich (3,1)

The Story Behind Yakoana: an interview with Anh Crutcher - Dale Stover (3,1)

The Superhero’s Mythic Journey: Death and the Heroic Cycle in Superman - Mark D. Stucky (10,2)

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Twice Repressed: The Case of Ondaatje's Kip - Nikky Singh (8,1)

Teaching Field of Dreams as Cosmogonic Myth - Mara Donaldson (2,3)

Teaching Religion and Film - Paul V.M. Flesher and Robert Torry (2,3)

The Ties that Bind and Bless the Soul: Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper - Jason mbrosiano (2,2)

They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture - Brian Howell and Anthony dela Fuente (10,2)

To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies - John Lyden (1,2)

Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves - Irena S. M. Makarushka (2,1)

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The Ustad: Domesticating the Other from With(in/out) - Anilkumar Payyappill Vijayan (8, 1)

The Unholy Biblical Subtexts and Other Religious Elements Built into Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) - Anton Karl Kozlovic (7,1)

Using 'Homemade' Documentary Video in Religious Studies - Scott C. Alexander (1, 2)

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Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film - Conrad Ostwalt (2,1)

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When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - J. Heath Atchley (7, 2)

Wake up!  Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix - Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel Wagner (5,2)

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