Luminous: The Spiritual Life on Film

by Mike King

Book Overview

This book is a comprehensive survey of religion and spirituality on film. It explores different aspects of the spiritual life as projected in more than 400 movies. Film settings embrace all of the major faiths, smaller religious groupings, the New Age, and even contexts that are in the first instance secular, atheist or anti-religious. A dozen themes have been identified in which to group them. Two types of film were excluded: escapist fantasy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786476427
• ISBN13: 9780786476428
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher