[ecrea] CFP CINEMA 4: Philosophy of Religion and the Moving Image (ed. Sérgio Dias Branco), 28 Feb. 2013

CINEMA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE invites submissions 
for its 4th issue.

The fourth issue of CINEMA addresses the topic of philosophy of religion 
and its connections with cinematic art. Film and religion have been 
fruitful research topics taken in conjunction. Researchers in this 
specific field have focused on particular periods (like the censorship 
era in the USA), on representations of religious traditions and 
practices (Sufism, for example), and on different theoretical approaches 
(such as feminism) and broad topics (ethics, for instance) within film 
studies. Film and philosophy have also had a productive relation in 
recent years. Different philosophical fields have addressed film, from 
the philosophy of art to the philosophy of mind, yet philosophy of 
religion has been a field lacking in the discussion of film.

This issue aims at addressing this lack. CINEMA seeks essays that engage 
with the cinematic art along with the work of prominent living 
philosophers of religion like the Buddhist Mark Siderits, the Catholic 
Christian Jean-Luc Marion, the Protestant Christian Nicholas P. 
Wolterstorff, the Hindu Shyam Ranganathan, the Jewish Joshua Hoffman, or 
the Muslim Hossein Nasr. In their discussion of cinema, contributions 
may also draw on deeply influential philosophers like Dharmakīrti, 
Thomas Aquinas, Søren Kierkegaard, Adi Shankara, Maimonides, or 
Averroes, and thinkers who are linked with significant contemporary 
philosophical currents like deconstruction (John D. Caputo) or who have 
presented critical challenges to religion such as Ludwig Feuerbach and 
Friedrich Nietzsche.

CINEMA asks for articles that take a philosophical approach to religion 
and film, particularly developing close analyses of artworks of the 
moving image. Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the 
following themes:

• beauty
• belief
• death
• evil and suffering
• faith
• immanence and transcendence
• justice
• morality
• politics
• religious diversity
• religious experience
• revelation
• sacred scriptures
• spirituality
• tradition

The submission deadline is 28 February 2013 (for 500-word abstracts). 
Prospective authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. A 
selection of authors will be invited to submit full papers according to 
the journal guidelines. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee 
publication, since all papers will be subject to double blind 
peer-review. Submissions are accepted in Portuguese and English (and in 
French and Spanish, but only from native speakers of these languages).

CINEMA also invites submissions to its special sections: interviews, 
conference reports, and book reviews. For further details, please 
consult the journal’s web site (http://cjpmi.ifl.pt 
<http://cjpmi.ifl.pt/>).

Feel free to contact the editor for this issue, Sérgio Dias Branco 
((sdiasbranco /at/ fl.uc.pt) <mailto:(sdiasbranco /at/ fl.uc.pt)>), on specific 
queries, or Patrícia Castello Branco and Susana Viegas with general 
queries at (cjpmi /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) <mailto:(cjpmi /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)>.-