May 27

Bells From The Deep / Christ And Demons In The New Spain

BELLS FROM THE DEEP (1993) Faith, superstition and mysticism in Russia: a "grand sorcerer" who attempts a mass exorcism; tribes who croak like frogs to achieve meditation; devotees who crawl onto a frozen lake to view a lost city at its bottom (Herzog admitted he hired local winos to play the pilgrims), viewed without comment.
CHRIST AND DEMONS IN NEW SPAIN (1999) The conquest of Latin America by the Catholic Church and the consequences of it for today's religious life in that region.