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My Top Ten Religious Series:

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To commemorate the Featured Television Blog for the month of October, Under the Banner of Heaven, I have gathered My Top Ten Religious Series! If you're looking for the best movies featuring faith and religion,

‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ – Interview:

29 October, 2025 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments Blog Posts Featured Blog Golden Globe Awards Television 11:20 pm

When Andrew Garfield appeared on Good Morning America in April 2022, it wasn’t just another press stop — it was a thoughtful exploration of what it means to play faith on the edge of fracture. Promoting his

This section helps you build foundational understanding of the period 1964-85 in Brazil, the meaning of Institutional Act Number Five (AI-5) and the transitional justice processes (or the lack thereof).

Source Notes: Where to Start with Brazil’s Dictatorship & the Lafferty Case –

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The 1984 murders of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter Erica in American Fork, Utah, shocked a nation and later inspired Under the Banner of Heaven. The case intersected questions of religion, patriarchy, and violence in

Through contrasting depictions of belief under duress, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (2024) and Dustin Lance Black’s Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) interrogate the fragile boundary between faith as moral resistance and faith as moral weapon. Where Salles’s Brazil-set drama situates spiritual endurance within political repression, Black’s American miniseries dissects the corrosive psychology of revelation turned radical. Both works use craft—point of view, score, and geography—to transform faith from abstract theme to lived tension, revealing how devotion, when tested by power, becomes a study in both survival and collapse.

Faith Under Pressure: How Film & TV Frame Religious Extremism –

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Through contrasting depictions of belief under duress, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (2024) and Dustin Lance Black’s Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) interrogate the fragile boundary between faith as moral resistance and faith as moral weapon. Where Salles’s

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My Top Ten Religious Series:

‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ – Interview:

Source Notes: Where to Start with Brazil’s Dictatorship & the Lafferty Case –

Faith Under Pressure: How Film & TV Frame Religious Extremism –