Diese Ausgabe bietet einen Einblick in das vielfältige Forschungsfeld Ostasien, Film und Religion und regt dadurch zum Weiterdenken und -forschen an.

Paradise Lost is not only the title of John Milton’s famous epic poem (1667) but also a philosophical-theological notion linked to and emerging from the Fall from Eden in Genesis. It expresses – or imagines – the human experience of a definite rupture ...

This issue’s thematic focus on teaching eligious studies and ethics through short films originated in a conversation among the editors of this journal about our use of film in the university classroom: how do we pedagogically engage films, how do our ...

The current issue presents four contributions that discuss media ethics and religion from different perspectives.

Media and religion, both broadly understood, often form the mise-en-scène for power struggles in competing narratives of conflict, protest, oppression, and resistance.

Religion is not primarily a system of reflection and philosophical pondering by means of texts; it is an existential experience.

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. ...

How can we screen trauma? This question might lead the perception of documentary movies about atrocities in the 20th and 21st centuries