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Alexander, Scott C.

Using 'Homemade' Documentary Video in Religious Studies (1, 2)

Allon, Yoram

Film Review: Songs from the Second Floor (5, 1)

Ambrosiano, Jason

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

Arjet, Robert

Film Review: Mission: Impossible II (4, 2)

Ascough, Richard S.

Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters (7, 2)

Atchley, J. Heath

Avila, Wanda

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

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Baker, Geoff

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

Bazin, André

Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes (6, 2)
(Translated and edited by Bert Cardullo)

Beavis, Mary Ann

Blake, Richard

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

Blizek, William L. "Bill"

Blizek, Nicole

Film Review: Resurrection (4, 1)

Bowman, Donna

Boyd, James W. and Nishimura, Tetsuya

Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away" (8, 2)

Bramer, Daniel and Wittung, Jeffery

From Superman to Brahman: The Religious Shift of The Matrix Mythology (10,2)

Brintnall, Kent L.

Burke, Ron

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

Caperelli, Jr., Vince

Film Review: Maria Full of Grace (10, 1)

Castle, Robert

The Dharma Blues (6, 1)
Clanton, Dan Comer, Todd

Conklin, Hal and Wayman, Denny

Conroy, Melissa

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

Cooke, Andrew

Film Review: Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire...and the Communion of Saints? (10, 1)

Cormier, Michelle

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

Craft-Fairchild, Catharine

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

Cunningham, Philip

The Arrest and Sentencing of Jesus: A Historical Reconstruction (8, 1 - Special Issue)

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

Deacy, Christopher

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

De Concini, Barbara

Seduction by Visual Image (2, 3)

DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario

dela Fuente, Anthony and Howell, Brian

They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture (10,2)

Delmont, James

Film Review: God's Army (4, 2)

Denton-Borhaug Goucher, Kelly
A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Popular Polarized Reaction to Gibson’s The Passion (9, 1)
Denzey, Nicola Derry, Ken and Michael, Tony

Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard (5, 1)

Desmarais, Michele

Dodson, Mary

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

Donaldson, Mara

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

Dworkin, Elyse

Film Review: A Sign From God (4, 2)

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Ehrlich, Linda

Elwell, J. Sage

Film Review: Sylvia (7, 2)

Etherden, Matthew

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

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Fielding, Julien R.

Fisher, Danny

Film Review: DVD Review: The Ultimate Matrix Collection (10, 1)

Fitch, John III

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

Flannery-Dailey, Frances

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

Flato, Jason M.

Flesher, Paul V. M. and Torry, Robert

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

Forest, Ben

Film Review: A.I.: Artifical Intelligence (6, 1)

Frazier, Jessica

Fredriksen, Paula

History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion (8, 1 - Special Issue)

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Garbowski, Christopher

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

Goodacre, Mark

Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? (3,2)

Graham, Paul

Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiquous Space of the Victimage Model (9, 2)

Greeley, Andrew M.

Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Greiner, Carl

Grondelski, John M.

From "The Ten Commandments" to the "Decalogue" (7, 1)

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Hamm, S.J., Dennis
Are the Gospel Passion Accounts Anti-Jewish? ( 8, 1 - Special Issue)

Hancock, Brannon M.

Herbel, Rev. Oliver

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

Hoff Kraemer, Christine

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

Hoffman, Valerie J.

Ritual, Music, Sociability and Censure: Making a Film on Sufi 'DHIKR' in Egypt (2, 1)

Howell, Brian and dela Fuente, Anthony

They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture (10,2)

Hussain, Amir

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Jenkins, Bill

K

Karounos, Michael

Keefer, Kyle and Linafelt, Tod

The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves (2, 1)

Keefer, Kyle

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

King, Mike

Kozlovic, Anton Karl

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Lavia, Kate

Film Review: Bowfinger(4, 1)

Lawler, Michael G.

Sectarian Catholicism and Mel Gibson (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Levi, Jennifer

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

Levitt, Laura

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

Linafelt, Tod and Keefer, Kyle

The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves (2, 1)

Linafelt, Tod and Plate, S. Brent

Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7, 1)

Lobel, Andrea D.

Film Review: About Schmidt (7, 1)

Lyden, John

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Mahan, Jeffrey H.

Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies (6, 1)

Makarushka, Irena S.M.

Mallinson, Jeffrey

Film Review:Constantine (9, 1)

Marsh, Clive

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

Matalon, Guy

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

Martin, John

Film Review: The Believer (7, 2)

Matties, Gordon

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

McEver, Matthew

McMahon, Christopher

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

Megibben, Artie

Film Review: Hannibal (5, 1)

Mercadante, Linda A.

Michael, Tony and Derry, Ken

Jon Woo'sThe Killer and Girard (5, 1)

Miles, Carol

Mork, Gordon R.

Christ's Passion on Stage: The Traditional Melodrama of Deicide (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Mullen, Eve L.

Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film (2, 2)

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Newman, Marc T.

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

Nishimura, Tetsuya and Boyd, James W.

Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away" (8, 2)

Nouvet, Elysee

Film Review: 21 Grams (8, 1)

Novetzke, Christian Lee

Book Review: Mother India

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Olea, Vincent A.

Film Review: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (9, 2)

Oldenhage, Tania

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

Olson, Dr. Duane

Fall, Creation, and Redemption in Heil LaBute's The Shape of Things (8, 1)

Ondrich, Maria-Priska

Amma n Movies: An Introduction (9, 2)

Ostwalt, Conrad

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Paffenroth, Kim

Film Depictions of Judas (5, 2)

Pahl, Jon

Film Review: 8 Mile (7, 1)

Pannell, Rebecca

Film Review: Holy Smoke! (4, 2)

Panelli, Annalisa

Film Review: Gangs of New York (7, 1)

Pater, John

Film Review: The Cell (4, 2)

Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D, John T.

Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges: Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (8, 1 - Special issue)

Pearson, Ann

Apocalyptic Visions - Beyond Corporeality (2, 3)

Phillips, Thomas E.

Plate, S. Brent

Plate, S. Brent and Linafelt, Tod

Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7, 1)

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Ramji, Rubina

Reinhartz, Adele

Ritter, Beth

Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Film (10, 1)

Robbins, Gregory Allen

Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Abel: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4 (1, 1)

Rogers, Joe

Film Review: Crash (9, 2)

Roncace, Mark

Film Review: Dopamine (10, 1)

Ruf, Frederick

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Sadlek, Gregory M.

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

Salter, Richard C.

The Birth of a Nation as American Myth (8, 2)

Sara, Elyse D.

Savio D'Sa, Nigel

Andrei Rublev: Religious Epiphany in Art (3, 2)

Schatzmann-von Aesch, Beatrice

Film Review: Bend It Like Beckham (7, 1)

Schroeder, Caroline T.

Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion (7, 2)

Schuler, Jean

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

Schultes, John S.

Any Gods Out There?Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7, 2)

Schwartz, Susan L.

I Dream, Therefore I Am:What Dreams May Come (4, 1)

Shilling, Kaile

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

Silk, Mark

Gibson's Passion: A Case Study in Media Manipulation? (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Singh, Nikky

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

Sison, Antonio

Smith, David L.

Solano, Jeanette Reedy

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

Snodgrass, Jon

Book Review: Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment

Spiegel, James S.

Cinematic Illustrations in Christian Theology (6, 2)

Stetson, Brad

Film Review: In the Bedroom (6, 1)

Stone, Bryan

Stover, Dale

The Story Behind YAKOANA (3, 1)
Stucky, Mark D.

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Taylor, Simon J.

'It All Happens Here:' Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (7, 1)

Tooze, G. Andrew

Moses and the Reel Exodus (7, 1)

Torry, Robert and Flesher, Paul V. M.

Trussell, Richard Curran

I, Robot: You Gotta Have Heart (9, 2)

Tumanov, Vladimir

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

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Van Dyke, Michael

Film Review: The House of Sand and Fog (8, 1)

Vassar, John

Film Review: Anything Else (8, 1)

Vest, John W.

Film Review: Grizzly Man (10, 1)

Vijayan, Anilkumar Payyappilly

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

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Wagner, Rachel

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

Wagner, Rachel and Flannery-Dailey, Frances

Wake up!  Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix (5, 2)

Walker Bergström, Catharine

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

Walsh-Pasulka, Diana

Film Review: The Matrix: Reloaded (7, 2)

Watkins, Greg

Wayman, Denny and Conklin, Hal

Weldon, Clodagh

White Crawford, Sidnie

Romans, Greeks, and Jews: The World of Jesus and the Disciples (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Whitehouse, Glenn

Film Review: Sunshine State (6, 2)

Wilkes, Chad

Film Review: Kinsey (9, 1)

Williams, Aby

Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Film (9, 1)

Williams, Paul Allen

Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Film (9, 1)

Wittung, Jeffery and Bramer, Daniel

From Superman to Brahman: The Religious Shift of The Matrix Mythology (10,2)

Wright, Wendy M.

Babette's Feast: A Religious Film (1, 2)

Wyman, Kelly J.

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

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Yarri, Donna

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