How Movies Helped Saved My Soul

Is there more to going to the movies than just mindless entertainment? Author Gareth Higgins, avid moviegoer and film critic, says there is. How Movies Helped Save My Soul is a guidebook for looking at films and finding hidden spiritual truths. With chapters on fear, God, justice, love, power, and more, Higgins teaches how to make sense of the spiritual by looking at films with a new perspective. From The Matrix to Magnolia, Fight Club to Field of Dreams, Higgins takes the reader through more than 200 films that, if looked at the right way, just might change lives. Movie buffs and novices alike will find much to enjoy, provoke, amuse, challenge and confound in How Movies Helped Save My Soul. Book jacket.

Gareth Higgins, Ph.D. has worked as an academic and activist, and is a freelance writer and research consultant specializing in Northern Ireland affairs, religion, peacemaking, film and post-modern culture. He is the co-chair of the zero28 Project, a post-sectarian peace building initiative