Religion in Contemporary European Cinema The Postsecular Constellation [Hardcover]

The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The crisis of religion is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema does. The book explores the mutual influences, structural analogies, shared dilemmas, as well as the historical roots of such a post-secular constellation as seen through the lens of European cinema. Bringing together scholars from film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God.

Introduction: Dealing (Visibly) in Things not Seen Costica Bradatan  1. Deconstructing Christianity in Contemporary European Cinema: Nanni Morettis Habemus Papamand Jean-Luc Nancys Dis-enclosure  Catherine Wheatley  2. Casting Fire onto the Earth: The Holy Fool in Russian Cinema Alina Birzache  3. The New Aesthetics of Muslim Spirituality in Turkey: Yusufs TrilogyBy Semih Kaplanolu Asuman Suner  4. Pasolini: Religion and Sacrifice Geoffrey Nowell-Smith  5. Entangled in Gods Story. A Reading of Krzysztof Kie[lowskis Blind ChanceCostica Bradatan  6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Sound and the Neighbour in Kie[lowski, Haneke, Martel Paul Coates  7. Bruno Dumonts Cinema: Nihillc'