Exactly 30 years after The Omen (1976), The Omen (2006) was released. An older boy plays Damien in the remake, which means that the actor ...

Writing on theology and ethics and their application to politics and economics in An Interpretation of Christian Ethics , Reinhold Niebuhr r...

The film, Mary (2024), is pregnant with intimations of the theological implications of her unborn and then newly born son, Jesus. That stor...

Brian De Palma’s film, Obsession (1976), harkens back to Hitchcock’s film, Vertigo (1958) primarily in that resemblances between a charact...

Levi Strauss theorized that the function of a myth lies in reconciling basic contradictions, whether they are felt within a person or at the...

The Hindu myth, the Bhagavadgita , is typically regarded as placing the god Krishna above not only the other Hindu gods—here rendered merely...

The Devil’s Arithmetic   (1999) can be classified superficially as a coming-of-age film, for Hanna, the protagonist, starts out being immatu...

The subfield of comparative religions can be exciting because the beliefs, values, symbols, myths, and rituals can introduce a person to ...

Screenwriters who want to distinguish their work as riveting in terms of meaning and being thought-provoking can look to myths (living or d...