Introduction: Religious Experience in the Cinema
1. Religion and Film
2. Religious Experience
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey; Cosmos and Ethos
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Meditative Perception
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Crossing the Perceptual Threshold
6. Enter the Void: The Initiatory Moment
7. Enter the Void: Initiatory Trauma, Psychedelics and the Lightning-bolt Path
8. Melancholia: In Dreadful Beauty and Trembling
9. Melancholia: Presence in Absence/The Long Withdrawing Roar
Conclusion: Spiritual Sensations
Bibliography
Index