This online course addresses three areas of analysis: 1) film representations of established religions; 2) film and the construction of social values; and 3) film as contemporary “myth.” Treating films as social texts, this course asks what such representations of ourselves to ourselves suggest about culture in general.
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Religion and Hip Hop Culture (Rice University)
What is religion? What is Hip Hop? Are they the same thing? Do they overlap? In this online course you’ll get a sense of how some individuals answer these questions, and you’ll get the tools you need to explore these questions for yourselves.
This online course starts with some basic assumptions, the most important being a willingness to think about Hip Hop and religion as cultures that wrestle with the huge questions of our existence: Who are we? Why are we? Where are we? You will also need to be open to the possibility of Hip Hop as a language through which these complex and religious questions are presented, explored, and interpreted.
As this course unfolds, you’ll look closely into the relationship between Hip Hop culture and religion. It explores the ways in which Hip Hop culture discusses and provides life meaning in complex ways through (1) a discussion of the history and content of rap music; (2) an examination of religion in rap music; (3) an exploration of the religious sensibilities of rap artists; and (4) a discussion of the implications of the connection between rap and religion.
All is this is accomplished through a unique mix of videos, readings, music, images, stories and behind-the scenes insider perspectives.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Man of Steel (2013)
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Tony Stark creates the Ultron Program to protect the world, but when the peace-keeping program becomes hostile, The Avengers go into action to try and defeat a virtually impossible enemy. Earth’s mightiest heroes must come together once again to protect the world from global extinction.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There’s Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Frozen (2013)
Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey – teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven – to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom is set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Les Misérables (2012)
Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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Black History (University of California)
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- Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling with Jack Glaser and Paul Figueroa — In the Living Room with Henry
- Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
- Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets
- Bunche Center 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Adjustment and Revisions: 1986 – Present
- Bunche Center 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Emergence and Institutionalization: 1969 – 1985
- Civil Rights: The Music and the Movement
- Laura Pulido: Black Brown Yellow and Left
- Lunch Poems: Amiri Baraka
- Lytle Memorial Concert: Miles Ahead
- Reconsidering Little Rock: Julian Bond
- Reconsidering Little Rock: Terrence Roberts
- Osher UCSD: Tuskegee Airmen
- Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen?
- The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora
- 3rd Annual Nakupenda Valentine’s Concert: Eclectic Musings
- Cosmopolitanism – Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Angela Davis
- Improving Race Relations: An Interview with John Perkins
- The Haunting of Jim Crow
- Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson’s Radical Thought: Cedric Robinson’s Keynote Address
- Exodus, Black Colonization, and Promised Lands with David Davis
- City Club Presents Anthony Lewis 2004
- Rekindling the Spirit of Brown v. Board of Education
- Legacy of Slavery…Unequal Exchange Conference: Trouble in Mind: African Americans From Emancipation to the 1990’s
- Peter Irons: “Jim Crow’s Children: Broken Promise of Brown Decision”
- Legacy of Slavery…Unequal Exchange Conference: Rapporteur Charles H. Long: Reflections on the Legacy of Slavery and Implications for the 21st Century
- Legacy of Slavery…Unequal Exchange Conference: Panel 5: Racism and Discrimination After Emancipation
- Legacy of Slavery…Unequal Exchange Conference: Panel 4: Life and Labor Among Enslaved Women
- Lunch Poems: Cornelius Eady
- Creativity, Black Feminist Roots, and Human Revolution
- A Celebration of Barbershop (the movie): A Panel Discussion and Town Meeting
- Julianne Malveaux UCSD Black History Month February 2003
- More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order
- Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young
- Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa
- Elaine Brown: New Age Racism
- Edward Ball: Slaves in the Family
- Root Doctors: Quincy Troupe and Phil Upchurch
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Religious and Spiritual Themes in Film: Gandhi (1982)
Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film which dramatises the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India’s non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom’s rule of the country during the 20th century. The film covers Gandhi’s life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment, and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi’s embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted.
Exploring religion in film, the spirituality of television shows, and meaning found within popular culture.
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