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Główne nurty w badaniach nad filmem i religią
Main directions in film and religion studies

Author(s): Adam Domalewski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Theology and Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: motion pictures – religious aspects; religion in motion pictures; postsecularism; film theory

Summary/Abstract: The article is a meta-study and provides an original typology of research on film and religion, based on Polish and English academic sources. The author proposes to divide this field of research into four main domains, which he names successively: substantial-theological, anthropological-mythological, socio-cultural and post-secular. The following descriptive criteria were used to introduce this division: the relationship between religion and culture adopted (usually implicitly) in a given direction of research, the concept of both human and religion emerging from them, and the established subject and scope of research, as well as the basic set of tools used within them. The proposed systematic is intended to help capture the significant differences between the main types of research on film and religion, both in terms of research assumptions, methods of analysis, and set goals.

  • Issue Year: 30/2021
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 5-25
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish