This year’s Academy Awards ceremony on March 7 features a bumper crop of films, many that are built around spiritual, and sometimes overtly religious, themes. Are 2009’s movies really more spiritually focused than films of recent years? Has Hollywood found religion? Or are producers just recognizing that religion sells?
After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. Nowhere will that be more evident than on Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 7 and during the Winter Olympics that run from Feb. 12-28.
Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday is Jan. 8 and is evoking the kind of devotion often associated with “the King” — as well as with the “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, whose death last year was accompanied by an almost worshipful outpouring. What explains this widespread cult of celebrity? Is it a religious phenomenon?
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