Today, death is marked by a paradoxical condition of absence and presence. People are hidden away in care homes or hospitals when they die. Professionals deal with death,...

In an era when media and their narratives significantly shape public perceptions, it is imperative we examine and broaden our understanding of how Islam – a religious and...

Congratulations, JRFM! With this issue we celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), which has been published in cooperation with...

As we all know, time flies, and that is also true for us: JRFM is celebrating its 10th anniversary. When we think back to the beginnings of our journal, we take a mental...

Why over the four decades since it was written, we might ask, has Atwood’s story been received by multiple audiences, in multiple languages and through multiple media as a vehicle for critical public engagement with social and political processes? The answer lies surely in its relevance.

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

Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie der akademische Unterrichtsstil das Verständnis des Lehrstoffs prägt und wie Medien bei der Umsetzung helfen können.

The comic transcends the merely entertaining, and fans of comics become engaged and invested in the field through a range of activities.

What is the human being? What are the conditions that hinder or promote human flourishing? How can human beings exist in an industrialized, technicized society? h ...

In his controversial poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual.

JRFM is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. It offers a platform for scholarly research in the broad field of religion and media, with a particular interest in audiovisual and interactive forms of communication.