Teaching religion and film Gregory J. Watkins

Contributors, xi
Introduction: Teaching Religion and Film
Gregory J. Watkins, 3

PART I Establishing Shot: Viewing the Field of Religion and Film

1. What Are We Teaching When We Teach "Religion and Film"?
William L. Blizek and Michele Desmarais, 17
2. Teaching Religion and Film: A Fourth Approach
Conrad Ostwalt, 35

PART II Film and the Teaching of Religious Traditions

3. Teaching Biblical Tourism: How Sword-and-Sandal Films
Clouded My Vision
Alice Bach, 57
4. Designing a Course on Religion and Cinema in India
Gayatri Chattetjee, 77
5. Buddhism, Film, and Religious Knowing: Challenging the
Literary Approach to Film
Francisca Cho, 117
6. The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film
Christopher Deacy, 129
7. Film and the Introduction to Islam Course
Amir Hussain, 141
8. Is It All about Love Aaually} Sentimentality as Problem and Opportunity
in the Use of Film for Teaching Theology and Religion
Clive Marsh, 155
9. Women, Theology, and Film; Approaching the Challenge
of Interdisciplinary Teaching
Gaye Williams Ortiz, 165

PART III The Religious Studies Approach

10. Seeing Is Believing, but Touching's the Truth: Religion, Film,
and the Anthropology of the Senses
Richard M. Carp, 177
11. There Is No Spoon? Teaching The Matrix, Postperennialism,
and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism
Gregory Grieve, 189
12. Teaching Film as Religion
John C. Lyden, 209
13. Filmmaking and World Making: Re-Creating Time and Space
in Myth and Film
S. Brent Plate, 219
14. Introducing Theories of Religion through Film: A Sample Syllabus
Gregory J. Watkins, 233

PART IV The Values Approach
15. Touching Evil, Touching Good
Irena S. M. Makarushka, 253
16. Teaching Ethics with Film: A Course on the Moral Agency of Women
Ellen Ott Marshall, 265
17. Searching for Peace in Films about Genocide
Jolyon Mitchell, 283
Index, 295