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Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 131-178 167 S. Brent Plate, ed., Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Cul- ture Making (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003). xii + 272 pp., $28.95, paper. Th e aim of this collection of essays is to explore the complex linkages between religion, culture, and cinema throughout the world from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the volume strives to understand the role of cinema in communal life as a “georeligious aesthetic” through which religious beliefs, practices, and images are continu- ally shaped, performed, and redefined. Of course, individual religious traditions may also be said to possess their own intrinsic aesthetic. While all religious traditions are carried along (and transformed in the process) by combinations of media, whether those are oral, written, visual, or electronic, this book explores the ways religion has been altered by the medium of film and also the way religion has shaped the use of that medium itself. One of the strengths of the book is the two-way street on which the various crosscultural explora- tions between religion and cinema are made to travel. Th roughout the volume, the authors are all keenly aware that the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

Stone, Bryan
Pneuma , Volume 29 (1): 167 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 131-178 167 S. Brent Plate, ed., Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Cul- ture Making (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003). xii + 272 pp., $28.95, paper. Th e aim of this collection of essays is to explore the complex linkages between religion, culture, and cinema throughout the world from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the volume strives to understand the role of cinema in communal life as a “georeligious aesthetic” through which religious beliefs, practices, and images are continu- ally shaped, performed, and redefined. Of course, individual religious traditions may also be said to possess their own intrinsic aesthetic. While all religious traditions are carried along (and transformed in the process) by combinations of media, whether those are oral, written, visual, or electronic, this book explores the ways religion has been altered by the medium of film and also the way religion has shaped the use of that medium itself. One of the strengths of the book is the two-way street on which the various crosscultural explora- tions between religion and cinema are made to travel. Th roughout the volume, the authors are all keenly aware that the

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