Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 25 No. 2, 2010.
Review article
How Do the Media Affect the Image of God and the Ideas about Religion?
Erika Prijatelj
; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The study will focus on the relationship between the representations of God’s image in the Bible and on film. How is transcendence presented and what is Christology like in film production in the time that is either negligent of the religious and the transcendental or tries to reduce it to a matter of human intellect? How does Christ differ in the films by Pasolini, Zeffirelli and Gibson? Can Jesus Christ the Saviour be replaced by a popular action movie hero? The paper will deal with religion from another perspective, namely, it will try to see whether religion has truly disappeared from the public life as it is sometimes assumed. How were the ideas about God used or misused by some politicians and leaders, such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and George W. Bush? What to do if the media enable us to perceive how religion is made political and how politics is made religionist?
Keywords
media; film; religion; politics; image of God; audiovisual translation
Hrčak ID:
68515
URI
Publication date:
19.5.2011.
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