A BBC News article published in 2003 about fans urging people to list Jedi as their religion in census records.

A look at the Taoist concept of wu wei through the lens of the Star Wars series. Published by John Porter on Beliefnet in 2003.

A paper by by John S. Schultes, published in the October 2003 issue of the Journal of Religion & Film.

A paper published in 2000 by John C. Lyden, editor of the Journal of Religion & Film.  

Gregory A. Robbins, University of Denver religious studies professor, has taught the course “Jesus on the Silver Screen.”

Andrew Flescher, religion professor at California State University, Chico, has taught a course on religion and film that looks at religion and self in contemporary American society; religion, redemption and recovery; and religion and ethnicity. He also directs the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, where he focuses on religion, ethics and society. He is the author […]

Paul V.M. Flesher, University of Wyoming professor of religious studies, teaches a course on religion and film. He and Robert Torry are co-authors of Film and Religion: A Textbook (2007). He is also an expert on Judaism of the Rabbinic period and early synagogues.

Amir Hussain is professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is a former editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. His research focuses on Islam in North America, with additional expertise in religion and music, religion and literature, religion and film and Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.

Richard Hecht, religious studies professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, has taught a course about religious themes in American films.