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The Devil as Doppelganger: Instinctual Faith and the Exhausted Rant of Evil in LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (US 2015)

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dc.creatorYergensen, Brent
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-31T15:21:17Z
dc.date.available2023-05-31T15:21:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractLAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (Rodrigo García, US 2015) portrays the devil as Jesus’s doppelganger, demonstrating the rivalry between good and evil as the two compete over the efficacy of Jesus’s faith. With Jesus assessing himself as he responds to the devil, the film offers a self-reflexive evaluation of faith as it is challenged by skepticism. By analyzing the film using the idea of an evolutionary faith instinct, the article presents Jesus’s trust in God as empowerment that allows him to endure elements of nature and find signs of divinity. The devil’s eventual exhausted impatience and his loss of his wager with Jesus bolster the applicability of a faith instinct. Ultimately, the film is an opportunity for this rendition of Jesus to be articulated in terms of evolutionary discourse.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.9:2023.1.8
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19645
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/334
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20851
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectDevilen
dc.subjectJesusen
dc.subjectScepticismen
dc.subjectDoppelgangeren
dc.subjectInstinctual Faithen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.workLAST DAYS IN THE DESERT
dc.titleThe Devil as Doppelganger: Instinctual Faith and the Exhausted Rant of Evil in LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (US 2015)en
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local.coverpage2023-05-31T17:51:46
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/334
local.source.epage171
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleParadise Lost: Presentation of Nostalgic Longing in Digital Games
local.source.spage157
local.source.volume9
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16252340

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