religious themes
Faith-based subject matter
Religious themes are subjects, motifs, or ideas drawn from or relating to religion—faith, salvation, sin, redemption, the divine, mortality, good versus evil.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of art, literature, and media: The film explores religious themes without endorsing any particular faith.
Content warnings may flag religious themes for viewers who prefer secular entertainment or wish to avoid specific traditions.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- second comingAwaited return of greatness
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
virtue · creation myth · sacrifice · cross · divinity · resurrection · omnipotence · good vs evil · prayer · prayer beads · scripture · sacred text · meditation · divine presence · menorah · crescent moon · enlightenment · holy trinity
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Islamic cinemaQuran recitation, hijab, Ramadan, Eid, Mecca
- Italian sacred literatureDante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Paradiso, Beatrice
- literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
- medieval literatureBeowulf, Song of Roland, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
- Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's Cabin, Uncle Tom, Topsy, Eliza