The interactions between popular music and religion are manyfold and highly complex. Popular music as an important part of popular culture is a means of communication.

In science fiction films, we explore remote universes and use yet unknown technologies – the world as we know it is left behind. But although the technical devices in these films are impressive and the science advances in huge steps, the protagonists ...

The articles in the thematic section of this issue of the JRFM address a number of issues that can help us better understand not only the films, TV series, or texts the authors are looking at, but also broader socio-political and psychological issues ...

Das außergewöhnliche und dennoch menschliche Leben Jesu inspirierte zu ganz unterschiedlichen Repräsentationen: visuelle und schriftliche Darstellungen stehen in hoch komplexen Beziehungen und sind in verschiedenen Epochen und Kulturen anzutreffen. ...

Marriage can be understood as a rite of passage that marks a fundamental transformation in a person’s life, legally, politically, and economically, and often in that person’s self-conception, as an individual and in terms of his or her place in society. ...