The Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM) is a peer-reviewed, open access, online publication. It offers a platform for scholarly research in the broad field of religion and media, with a particular interest in audio-visual and interactive forms of communication. It engages with the challenges arising from the dynamic development of media technologies and their interaction with religion in an interdisciplinary key. It is published twice a year, in May and November.
JRFM is edited by a network of international experts in film, media and religion with professional experience in interdisciplinary research, teaching and publishing, linking perspectives from the study of religion and theology, film, media, visual and cultural studies, and sociology. It is published in cooperation between different institutions in Europe and the USA, particularly the University of Graz, the University of Munich and Villanova University, in cooperation with the Schüren publishing house in Marburg.
Death, Loss and Mourning in Film and Media
Vol 12 No 1 | 2026
Editors: Marie-Therese Mäder and Sofia Sjö
Representations of Islam and Muslims in Film. From Stereotype to Scenescape
Vol 11 No 2 | 2025
Editors: Martina Bär and Franz Winter
Current Trends in the Study of Religion, Film and Media: Celebrating Ten Years of JRFM
Vol 11 No 1 | 2025
Editors: Philippe Bornet and Stefanie Knauss
Escaping the Moment. Time Travel as a Negotiation of Transcendence
Vol 10 No 2 | 2024
Editors: Verena Marie Eberhardt and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Fiction, Religion and Politics in The Handmaid’s Tale
Vol 10 No 1 | 2024
Editors: Natalie Fritz and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Here Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
Vol 9 No 2 | 2023
Editors: Christian Wessely, Franz Winter, and Yukihiko Yoshida
Paradise Lost. Presentation of Nostalgic Longing in Digital Games
Vol 9 No 1 | 2023
Editors: Frank Bosman and Alexander Darius Ornella
Academic Teaching with Short Films in Religion and Ethics
Vol 8 No 2 | 2022
Editors: Stefanie Knauss and Marie-Therese Mäder
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Media Ethics and Religion
Vol 8 No 1 | 2022
Editors: Natalie Fritz, Marie-Therese Mäder and Baldassare Scolari
Vol 7 No 2 | 2021
Editors: Philippe Bornet, Stefanie Knauss and Alexander D. Ornella
Materiality of Writing. Reconsidering Religious Texts
Vol 7 No 1 | 2021
Editors: Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christian Wessely
Religion and Popuar Music
Vol 6 No 2 | 2020
Editors: Natalie Fritz and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Science Fiction and Religion
Vol 6 No 1 | 2020
Editor: Elie Yazbek
Apocalyptic Imaginings
Vol 5 No 2 | 2019
Editorial: Alexander Darius Ornella
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Understanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond
Across Text and Other Media
Vol 5 No 1 | 2019
Editorial: Cristiana Facchini, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
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Special Edition
Selected Papers of JRFM
Vol 4 No 3 | 2019
Editorial: Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Christian Wessely
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«Who, Being Loved, Is Poor?»
Material and Media Dimensions of Weddings
Vol 4 No 2 | 2018
Editorial: Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Marie-Therese Mäder
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Trauma, Memory and Religion
Vol 4 No 1 | 2018
Editorial: Freek Bakker, Lucien van Liere
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Using Media in Religious Studies
Strategies of Representing Religion in Scholarly Approaches
Vol 3 No 2 | 2017
Editorial: Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler
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Drawn Stories, Moving Image
Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations
Vol 3 No 1 | 2017
Editorial: Alexander D. Ornella, Christian Wessely
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From Social Criticism to Hope
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
Vol 2 No 2 | 2016
Editorial: Stefanie Knauss
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«I Sing the Body Electric»
Vol 2 No 1 | 2016
Editorial: Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Alexander Darius Ornella
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