Jesus on the Big Screen
Depictions of the Nazarene began nearly the moment cinema did.
Depictions of the Nazarene began nearly the moment cinema did.
For the Soviet Union, atheism became more than the absence of religion. It was an ideology that had to fill the void of religion itself.
There are innumerable cinematic Jesuses, most of them bland, pious, and blue-eyed — until an Italian communist decided to preach the old gospel in a new way.
Postwar Poland saw a huge wave of church-building, within and against the professedly socialist system.
Christian tourists enjoy plenty of God-honoring vacation destinations across the United States.
In the 1960s, a nun in California decided to make contemporary art — and managed to serve both the Vatican and the anti–Vietnam War movement in the process.
The Fabian Society immortalized its brand of reformist socialism in stained glass.
How a corruption of New Left ideology became fodder for the religious right.
Irish labor leader Jim Larkin’s combination of Christian faith and socialist zeal electrified the working class — and threatened to tear down the established order.
For some, capitalism’s failures are to be redeemed not by political action but by civilization-scale moral projects under the remit of a new clergy: human resources.
Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is widely understood to be a right-wing force in US politics. But just over 100 years ago, Mormons were at the center of a religious socialist renaissance in Utah.