Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film

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Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film

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Feb 6, 2023

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Ting Guo chats with Rebekka King and Tenzan Eaghall about their new edited volume, Representing Religion in Film (Bloomsbury 2022), and they explore the “ideological blindspot” of existing studies on religion and film, have a listen!

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