TO SEE THE ‘THE INVISIBLE' AND TO WONDER ‘TNE UNKNOWN'. RELIGION IN THE IMAGES OF CINEMA
The focus of the study is to construct the image of religion by means of contemporary cinema. The relevance of the research is connected with the specifics of the phenomenon of cinema as an art: such features as non-critical perception of images and difficulty of reflection. The author has chosen contemporary film material as illustrative examples: popular TV series ‘ American Gods ' and the domestic art-house film ‘ Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari' . The paper has made an attempt to apply Niklas Luhmann's methodology in the study and conceptual differentiation of such social phenomena as religion and art which are often confused.