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The Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television contains twenty-three chapters on a variety of religions and religious phenomena, focusing on how they are depicted in film and television. Methodological considerations and academic debates concerning the effectiveness of popular cultural media in communicating information about religions and spiritualities are examined, and the films and television series are situated in political, social, geographical, and historical contexts. The authors are committed to open, serious, and scholarly work that accurately reflects the affective, entertainment, and imaginative dimensions of visual pop culture forms, while providing accurate and up to date information about the religious groups and trends they research.

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Carole M. Cusack, Ph.D. (1996), University of Sydney, is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published a variety of articles and books in religious studies, including Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010). Venetia Laura Delano Robertson Ph.D. (2017), University of Sydeny, is an independent scholar with a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Sydney. She writes about the intersection of popular culture, new media, alternative spirituality, and gender theory. Contributors are: Zoe Alderton, Cato Christensen, George D. Chryssides, Andrew Crome, Carole M. Cusack, Ethan Doyle White, David Feltmate, Ioannis Gaitanidis, Eric Michael Mazur, Elisha McIntyre, Elizabeth Olayiwola, Torjer A. Olsen, Erik A.W. Östling, Raymond Radford, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, Bettina E. Schmidt, Mairead Shanahan, Francisco Santos Silva, Sofia Sjö, Stefania Travagnin, Ulrike Wiethaus, Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, Humairah Zainal, and Benjamin E. Zeller.

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