After The Passion Is Gone American Religious Consequences

by Landres, Shawn J.; Berenbaum, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780759108141
• ISBN10: 0759108145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After 'The Passion' Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of inter-religious dialogue in the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
Michael Berenbaum and J. Shawn Landres
PART I THE CONTEXT OF THE PASSION	19	(70)
CHAPTER ONE Almost a Culture War:The Making of The Passion Controversy	23	(12)
Mark Silk
CHAPTER TWO Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy and the Internet	35	(12)
William J. Cork
CHAPTER THREE Living in the World, But Not of the World: Understanding Evangelical Support for The Passion of the Christ	47	(12)
Leslie E. Smith
CHAPTER FOUR The Passion Paradox: Signposts on the Road toward Mormon Protestantization	59	(16)
Eric R. Samuelsen
CHAPTER FIVE Is it Finished? The Passion of the Christ and the Fault Lines in American Christianity	75	(14)
Julie Ingersoll
PART II THE PASSION IN CONTEXT	89	(84)
CHAPTER SIX The Journey of the Passion Play from Medieval Piety to Contemporary Spirituality	93	(12)
Karen Jo Torjesen
CHAPTER SEVEN The Gibson Code?	105	(10)
Lorenzo Albacete
CHAPTER EIGHT "But Is It Art?" A Prelude to Criticism of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ	115	(10)
Robert A. Faggen
CHAPTER NINE Antisemitism without Erasure: Sacred Texts and Their Contemporary Interpretations	125	(12)
Gary Gilbert
CHAPTER TEN Theologizing the Death of Jesus, Gibson's The Passion, and Christian Identity	137	(12)
Jeffrey S. Siker
CHAPTER ELEVEN Manly Pain and Motherly Love: Mel Gibson's Big Picture	149	(10)
David Morgan
CHAPTER TWELVE Imago Christi: Aesthetic and Theological Issues in Jesus Films by Pasolini, Scorsese, and Gibson	159	(14)
Lloyd Baugh, SJ
PART III JEWS AND CHRISTIANS: REFRAMING THE DIALOGUE	173	(106)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Theological Bulimia: Christianity and Its Dejudaization	177	(16)
Susannah Heschel
CHAPTER FOURTEEN A March of Passion; or, How I Came to Terms with a Film I Wasn't Supposed to Like	193	(14)
Stephen R. Haynes
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Exposed Fault Line	207	(12)
Richard L. Rubenstein
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Crucifying Jesus: Antisemitism and the Passion Story	219	(10)
Stephen T. Davis
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Five Introspective Challenges	229	(14)
David M. Elcott
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN No Crucifixion = No Holocaust: Post-Holocaust Reflections on The Passion of the Christ	243	(12)
John K. Roth
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Passionate Encounter: The Ethics of Affirming Your Faith in a Multireligious World	255	(12)
Elliot N. Dorff
CHAPTER TWENTY Refraining Difference: Evangelicals, Scripture, and the Jews	267	(12)
Kathryn J.S. Smith
Afterword:The Passion of War	279	(10)
Mark Juergensmeyer
Bibliography	289	(42)
Index	331	(10)
About the Contributors	341