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“There is no order in which God calls us” The Depiction of Christianity and Christians in the Netflix Series SQUID GAME

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dc.creatorBosman, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T14:16:17Z
dc.date.available2023-05-25T14:16:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe highly successful and also somewhat controversial Netflix series Squid Game takes a very critical stance on the – supposed – intimate relationship between South Korean Christianity and capitalism, especially regarding what is known as the ‘prosperity gospel’. The series features some explicitly Christian characters who do not act according to what they preach, that is, they behave explicitly egoistically instead of altruistically. The series even seems to suggest that ‘true’ Christian compassion and self-sacrifice are to be found outside the boundaries of institutionalized Christianity rather than among nominal Christians. In this article, the author explains in more detail this twofold criticism that the series gives regarding (South Korean) Christianity by carefully examining key scenes and figures from the series, and positioning the series within South Korean (religious) society.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.8:2022.1.6
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19589
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/290
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20788
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.subjectDepictionen
dc.subjectChristianityen
dc.subjectNetflixen
dc.subjectSeriesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workSQUID GAME
dc.title“There is no order in which God calls us” The Depiction of Christianity and Christians in the Netflix Series SQUID GAMEen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-25T16:41:47
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/290
local.source.epage128
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Media Ethics and Religion
local.source.spage105
local.source.volume8
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106582931

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