Oct 2026· Journal of Religion & Film· Vol 30· 0 citations
Abstract
Celebrated as a critical and commercial success, Ryan Coogler’s genre-defying opus Sinners has also been considered as one of the most culturally significant films of 2025. It also promises to be one of the most theologically resonant films of the year. This is evinced not only in its thematic and literary bases but, importantly, in its very audiovisual language and grammar, its stylistic strategies qua film. As reasoned in this essay, Coogler’s film is a rich locus theologicus, a nexus for theological discovery and insight.Sinners kindles the hermeneutical impulse to dialogue with African American/Pan-Africa theologies exemplified by the works of Jame H. Cone, Engelbert Mveng, and Laurenti Magesa, and with other relevant liberationist/praxical perspectives.
This article studies the performance of mourning for the martyrs of Karbalāʾ as the commemorative and ritualized cultivation of grief as perpetual reminder of the possibility of commitment against injustice. It takes Ismat Chughtai’s (d. 1991) Urdu novel Ek Katrā Khūn or One Drop of Blood as exemplifying the narrative-...
Bharatwaj Iyer· Philosophy East & West· 0 citations
The study of fragmentary texts, particularly those from antiquity, opens a fascinating window into the past, allowing us rich insights into the cultural, literary, and historical landscapes in which they were created. The togata”a lesser-known form of mid-Republican Roman drama”survives only in scattered remnants, yet...
The Johannine Prologue (John 1:1–18) is among the central theological texts of the New Testament and provides essential Christological statements concerning the divine nature of Christ and his relationship to God. In particular, the Logos, the divine creative Word, plays a prominent role. In contrast to the Synoptic...
D. El Omari· Interdisciplinary Journal fo...· 0 citations
This essay engages with Quentin Skinner’s
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
by extending its insights on the importance of
ornatus
, which lends beauty and force to oratory, to Margaret Cavendish’s
The Female Academy
. Understanding this comedic play about women’s relationship to rhetoric, educa...
This article examines the emergence of prose as a genre in the early 19th century, as a creative response to the dual character of contemporary social events. It considers the antithesis of art and reality, and how the latter’s social dimension came to be replaced by an aesthetic one. A new type of prose genre emerges...
D. Chavchanidze· OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istori...· 0 citations
Focusing on Baldwin’s later works from the 1970s on, this article posits
that he began shaping an experimental nonfiction aesthetic that would allow him
to “sing” lyrically, diasporically, and discursively while
engaging in discourse with others. He improvised a means of enacting physically,
essayistically, and cin...
Walton M. Muyumba· James Baldwin Review· 0 citations
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