Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order

Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men—Joel and Ethan Coen make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a masterful response to this question of religious significance that neither imposes alien orthodoxy nor consigns the Coens to religious insignificance. The movies discussed each receive a chapter-length investigation of the specific film’s relation to the religious. Far more than just documenting religion in all Coen films, this mounts a compelling case for their consistent religious outlook with an original argument about precisely what constitutes religion. This is religion on Coen terms. Original.