Monthly Archives: June 2007

Off to Cornerstone Festival

June 26th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized

Tomorrow morning I leave for Cornerstone Festival and I will not return until Sunday afternoon. I will likely not be able to check email, and I will not be able to participate in the blogging world until next week. I hope I might have a chance to see some of my readers at the festival […]

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Fears Over Speculative Fiction

June 20th, 2007 | Posted in science fiction

The Religion Bookline section of Publisher’s Weekly includes the following news item: Fantasy 4 Fiction Tour Highlights Nascent Genre “Four Christian speculative fiction authors from four different publishers are teaming up for the Fantastic 4 Fantasy Fiction Tour. After a kickoff July 9 in Atlanta at the International Christian Retail Show, the writers will visit […]

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Occult-Tinged Fiction Revisited

June 14th, 2007 | Posted in fantasy, occult, science fiction, television

A friend and colleague of mine who is a reader of this blog sent me an email recently with some thoughts in response to my last post on “Occult-Tinged Television.” Since my friend sent this email to me privately in that he is working out his thoughts on this topic, I won’t mention his name, […]

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“Occult-Tinged” Television Programming

June 12th, 2007 | Posted in occult, occulture

At the end of May The Wild Hunt Blog included an interesting post on the large number of “occult-tinged” television programs that were the focus of an article in The New York Times. Wildhunt discusses some of these programs: Among the new supernaturally themed shows premiering is “Moonlight” a vampire-themed romantic detective series on CBS, […]

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Shinto and Liminality in Anime

June 7th, 2007 | Posted in anime

Anime, or Japanese animation, is a popular form of entertainment in Japan, and it continues to attract a growing fan base in the United States. But how might American viewers best understand these expressions of Asian culture? Two articles by scholars writing on various anime films for http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/The Journal of Religion and Film (JR&F) provide […]

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Stan Lee, Comic Fairytales, and Spirituality

June 4th, 2007 | Posted in comics, fairy tales

I enjoy interviews with creative and artistic people, and one of the venues for this is a series called “The Directors” which appears on the Reelz Channel. Normally this series interviews film directors, but this last weekend they had a chance of pace when they interviewed comic book legend Stan Lee. The last question of […]

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