CFP: Consequential Play – Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract + CV due: December 15, 2025 Video games have become a formative aspect of popular culture because they provide special opportunities for interactive storytelling, intense competition, leisure, and even artistic expression. Depending on how one defines the term “video games,”…
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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
CFP: Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract + CV due: Oct 1, 2025 Video games have become a formative aspect of popular culture because they provide special opportunities for interactive storytelling, intense competition, leisure, and even artistic expression. Depending on how one defines the term “video games,” it is estimated…
Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Taylor Swift
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion and Taylor Swift Edited by: Alexis Bradford and Chris Swann Taylor Swift is a cultural icon. As such, she is often used as a case study and her success has been carefully examined in fields such as business, economics, anthropology, media studies, and even philosophy, but theology and religious studies…
Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and LOST
Few commercial television series in recent memory have had as lasting an impact on audiences as has the series, LOST, which aired 2004–10, and is still available on streaming services. Its many themes still resonate today and are, indeed, timeless. Introduced in the pilot episode as a seemingly familiar “mystery/ action” drama that begins with…
Call for Papers: Theology, Philosophy, and Severance
Theology, Philosophy, and Severance Call for Papers Severance, created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, has captured the imagination of the streaming world. Season 1, developed and filmed during the Covid-19 Pandemic and the backbone of the Apple TV+ streaming service, was nominated for 14 Emmys at the 74th Annual Emmy Awards in 2022 (two…
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Taylor Swift
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion and Taylor Swift Edited by: Alexis Bradford and Chris Swann Taylor Swift is a cultural icon. As such, she is often used as a case study and her success has been carefully examined in fields such as business, economics, anthropology, media studies, and even philosophy, but theology and religious studies…
Whose Fantasy, Which Theology? Reflections on Theology, Fantasy, and Imagination: Part 1 – The Baptized Imagination
By Andrew D. Thrasher When I was in undergraduate at George Mason University in 2011, I took a brand-new course in a discipline I came to pursue for more than another decade. The course was called “Religion, Fantasy, and the Imagination” and I remember by the end of that semester, I dreamed I would teach…
Horror, Theology, and the Fragmented World
By Brandon R. Grafius Every prophet in the Hebrew Bible has a call narrative, a story where God speaks to them directly and commissions them to be a prophet. Think of Moses at the burning bush, the young Samuel being woken by a voice in the middle of the night, or Jeremiah being touched on…
Contemplatives in Conversation: The Theology of Cinema, Part 2
By Arthur Aghajanian ***Before continuing, read Part One here… AA: In the context of theology, we might note that film has a special ability to represent things that other art forms can’t. The hypnotic affects achieved through temporal dislocation, the camera’s ability to concentrate attention while being everywhere at once, and the use of montage…
Contemplatives in Conversation: The Theology of Cinema, Part 1
By Arthur Aghajanian Going to the movies may not seem like religious action, but it’s one of the most common ways we experience spiritual insight. Film impacts how we interpret life, and its mechanical apparatus is uniquely suited to provide glimpses of the divine in the signs and symbols of the everyday. Like religion, film…
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