Black Panther
Hanuman’s emergence as a pop-culture icon shows West is waking up to Hinduism
By Murali Balaji — April 1, 2024
(RNS) — Dev Patel's movie is the latest positive depiction of Hindu ideals in the shape of the deity Hanuman.
‘WandaVision’ echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere
By Michael Nichols — May 27, 2021
(The Conversation) — 'WandaVision' reimagines stories from Egyptian and Greek mythology, as well as Buddhist tradition.
Chadwick Boseman’s faithful purpose showed from ‘Black Panther’ to his dignified death
By Tyler Burns — August 31, 2020
(RNS) — In a country built on casually snatching our lives away prematurely, he lived to show Black children that they can be poetry, not just prey or property.
Chadwick Boseman: Man of faith in real life, ‘Black Panther’ on screen
By Adelle M. Banks — August 31, 2020
(RNS) — ‘When God has something for you, it doesn’t matter who stands against it,’ the actor told Howard University graduates in 2018.
The priest who channeled Black Power into the Catholic Church
By Matthew J. Cressler — December 2, 2019
(RNS) — George Clements teamed with Black Panthers and helped create space to be both ‘authentically Black’ and ‘truly Catholic.’
‘Black Panther’ inspires Kenyan church leaders’ march for Pan-African unity
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 27, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — A network of progressive churches in the United States, inspired by the success of the movie 'Black Panther,' has joined with over 100 Kenyan church leaders in a march to promote a global movement on Pan-African peace, power and prosperity.
Black churches host screenings of ‘Black Panther’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 1, 2018
(RNS) — Across the country, congregants have bought out theaters for screenings and dressed in their favorite African attire to see a superhero who looks like them.
African cosmologies: spiritual reflections on the ‘Black Panther’ movie
By Yolanda Pierce — February 19, 2018
(RNS) — Within most African religious worldviews, everything is a part of the spiritual world and so physical combat or clothing or body modification are all infused with sacred resonance. (Commentary)
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