Special Issue Film and Lived Theology Dear Colleagues, Guest Editor:
Prof. Dr. Joseph Kickasola Department of Film and Digital Media, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA E-Mail:
[email protected] Deadline for manuscript submissions:
30 September 2015 Special Issue website:
mdpi.com/si/religions/film-lived-theology
This special issue of Religions will focus upon overlapping areas of cinema and Judeo-Christian theology in their “lived” or “experiential” dimensions. Both theology and cinema studies have shown recent interest in these lived, experiential aspects, as seen in William Dyrness’s Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life, Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley’s The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, the rise of neo-phenomenological film theory (e.g., Vivian Sobchack, Jennifer Barker), as well as a renewed “embodied” emphasis in the humanities and cognitive film theory. Rather than a focus on issues of religious representation in film—where and how religious people are exemplified, or religious events are depicted—these essays will outline and detail how film can give us an experience that is theologically
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loaded and significant. In other words, theological ideas can and will be present, but the emphasis here is on how these ideas are known through living, sensing, and feeling. In this light, the cinema functions more in the mode of sacrament and ritual than dogma, creed, or sermon illustration.
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Open Access (unlimited and free access by readers)
Prof. Dr. Joseph Kickasola Guest Editor
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embodiment
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Thorough peer review
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sacrament
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Fast manuscript handling time
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ritual
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Coverage by leading indexing services (SCIE Web of Science, etc.)
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transcendence
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cinema
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Immediate publication upon acceptance
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film studies
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film theory
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No space constraints (no restriction on the length of the papers, electronic files can be deposited as supplementary material)
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phenomenology
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