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Introduction: What Is Going On Introduction: What Is Going On
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Religion and Violence and Film Religion and Violence and Film
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Teaching Perspectives Teaching Perspectives
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Physical Violence Physical Violence
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Jesus Christ, Action Hero Jesus Christ, Action Hero
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Superheroes, the Bible, and America Superheroes, the Bible, and America
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Structural Violence Structural Violence
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Canon Fodder Canon Fodder
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Gendered Haunts Gendered Haunts
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Mythic Violence Mythic Violence
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Crime and Parable Crime and Parable
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Colonial Structures Colonial Structures
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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8 Believing is Seeing: Teaching Religion and Violence in Film
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Published:May 2012
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Abstract
Instead of using movies as examples or manifestations of sacred phenomena, this essay encourages teachers of religion to take advantage of film’s capacity to highlight the human process of and tendency toward creating meaning. As a resource for encouraging students to examine how they and others make meaning of “religion and violence,” film also facilitates critical inquiry into the intersection of those two concepts. In part this is because students typically feel more confident discussing movies—especially popular ones—than they do discussing texts. They can be brought into very active, detailed conversations about religion and violence that otherwise might be more difficult to instigate. This chapter outlines and reflects upon various ways such conversations might be generated in movies that highlight religious zeal, politics, gender, race, myth, and colonialism. Specific films discussed include Groundhog Day, Walking Tall, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Ghost, The Usual Suspects and Once Were Warriors.
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