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| Space Buddhism: The Adoption of Buddhist Motifs in Star Wars | ||
| 作者 | Feichtinger, Christian |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.15 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2014.05 |
| 頁次 | 28 - 43 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Special Issue: Buddhism and Film Christian Feichtinger is a university assistant for religious pedagogy and a lecturer for religious studies at the University of Graz/Austria. His main research fields are religion and film, religion and the body, religious pedagogy, and ethics.Address: Institut fu¨r Katechetik und Religionspädagogik (Institute for Catechetics and Religious Pedagogy), Heinrichstraße 78B/II 8010 Graz, Austria. Email: |
| 關鍵詞 | STAR Wars films |
| 摘要 | The Star Wars film-series has been an unprecedented commercial success in the history of cinema and has made a huge cultural impact. This is not least because of its creator George Lucas making wide use of religious and mythological elements, in his search for a new spiritual and moral guidance for a young audience. In this process, Lucas also adopts Buddhist symbols, values, and ideas in his concept of the order of the Jedi and their spirituality. These include sitting meditation, mindfulness, compassion, interdependence, or the overcoming of attachment. Thus, Star Wars represents and promotes Buddhist elements, but deprives them of their Buddhist origin, as Buddhism as a tradition does not exist in Lucas' 'galaxy far, far away'. Although Star Wars might serve as a vehicle to bring Buddhist ideas to Western audiences, in fact Lucas uses the distance of Asian and Buddhist culture to the Western world to also enact the Jedi as the Other, mysterious and fascinating, in an approach that can be defined as orientalistic. |
| 目次 | Star Wars in the history of motion pictures 28 Religion and spirituality 30 Elements of a ‘space Buddhism’ 31 Symbols 31 Contents 34 Star Wars—a ‘Buddhist’ movie? 40 Notes 41 Movies and Visual Media 43 |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2014.890348 |
| 點閱次數 | 255 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.11.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.07.14 |
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