Special Issue: 2018 International Conference on Religion and Film, Toronto
Introduction
We are pleased to present this Special Issue of the Journal of Religion & Film of selected papers from the 2018 International Conference on Religion and Film, which was held May 3-5 at the University of Toronto, Ontario. I would also like to take this opportunity to point out the Call for Papers for the 2019 International Conference on Religion and Film, to be found in the sidebar menu to the left. This conference will take place June 12-14, 2019 at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Proposals are due March 1, 2019. John Lyden, EditorArticles
Trickster Ambivalence in Kwaw Ansah’s Praising the Lord Plus One
Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang
Ask the Beasts of the Southern Wild: Exploring Human Identity as Beast, Being and Beholder in Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love and Beasts of the Southern Wild
Stephanie Cherpak Clary
Representations of Nineteenth Century Mormonism in A Mormon Maid: A Cinematic Analysis
Elisabeth Weagel
A Journey into the Heart of God: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) as a subversive Kabbalistic Text
Lindsay Macumber and Magi Abdul-Masih
Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics and Hindu Nationalism in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat
Baijayanti Roy
Screening religiosity in contemporary Polish films. The Role of Religious Motifs in Visual Communication.
Mariola Marczak
Neo-gnosticism at the movies
Michael Kaler