We encourage these films to be watched in company as a primer to deeper conversations about how religious shows up in your workplaces, networks and in the lives of your colleagues and friends.
Faith is so personal to people and it’s inevitable that some believers will watch “their” film and say ‘well, I wouldn’t present like that, or I think they got that wrong.’
What we have attempted to do is identify an important theme within each tradition and started to show how it is worked out in the lives of millions of followers. In particular, we’re trying to show how we might see these diverse expressions of faith as operating within a recognisable framework of thought and values. Religious expression is diverse, but it is still possible to describe the character of these traditions.
That’s what we mean by imagination. We’ve tried to explain that by imagination we don’t mean ‘imagined unreality’. We’re pointing to the fact that religion isn’t a set of precepts or even just a set of social practices, it’s a whole world that people inhabit, shaping their thinking and behaviours in relation to society, politics, economics and absolutely everything else. Imagination is our most expansive framing of the world in which we live.