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After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences
. Ed(S): Landres, J. Shawn; Berenbaum, Michael
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paperback. "The Passion of the Christ" topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. This work features scholars who ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of inter-religious dialogue in the United States. Editor(s): Landres, J. Shawn; Berenbaum, Michael. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of interreligious dialogue in the United States. Landres and Berenbaum's collection moves beyond questions of whether or not the film was faithful to the gospels, too violent, or antisemitic and explores why the debate focused on these issues but not others. The public discussion of The Passion ... Read more
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of interreligious dialogue in the United States. Landres and Berenbaum's collection moves beyond questions of whether or not the film was faithful to the gospels, too violent, or antisemitic and explores why the debate focused on these issues but not others. The public discussion of The Passion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759108158
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V9780759108158
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About . Ed(S): Landres, J. Shawn; Berenbaum, Michael
J. Shawn Landres is a research fellow at the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the University of Judaism. He co-edited Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion. Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and an Adjunct Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences
Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ unleashed a tsunami of commentary that revealed a great deal about our passions, our fears, and our stereotypes. Commendably, the thought-provoking essays in this volume both analyze and expand that conversation. A most worthwhile book.
Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University The Passion has raised passions, some that share the peace of ... Read more
Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University The Passion has raised passions, some that share the peace of ... Read more