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In Europe's increasingly pluralist and globalized environment, the religious landscape has changed dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, there are a growing number of people who desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, and find the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. A post-secular constellation, namely a broader culture of tension and mutual transformation between religious, heterodox, and secular experiences has emerged to combat the moral problems posed by the modern era. Combining cinema and philosophical reflection, Religion in Contemporary European Cinema interprets the mutual influences, structural analogies, and common dilemmas of this phenomenon. Its interdisciplinary group of contributors explores this complex, post-secular grey area through the lens of European cinema. By bringing together film analysis and theory with social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of religion, this unique volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience.