Rodríguez Fernández, Lidia2025-03-032025-03-032024-09Rodríguez Fernández, L. (2024). The Evangelical Reception of Mary Magdalene in The Chosen Series, Seasons 1 and 2. Religions, 15(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/REL1509108310.3390/REL15091083https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2418The Chosen is a wide-reaching series born within American Evangelicalism in 2019, whose academic interest resides in its value as a cultural product that has been gaining influence after the release of its four seasons. This article discusses the reception of Mary Magdalene in two chapters (S1/E1 and S2/E5) on the basis of two key principles that characterise North American conservative Evangelicalism: biblical inerrancy and its “born-again” model of conversion. The last part presents the difficult compromise between these religious values and filmic fictionalism, which leads to maintaining the traditional image of the repentant prostitute, though with a few particularities: the disappearance of all features of sensuality, an ambiguous interpretation of demon possession that is linked to an episode of sexual abuse and the story of Mary Magdalene’s childhood.eng© 2024 by the authorAmerican EvangelicalismBible and popular cultureMary MagdaleneThe Chosenjournal article2025-03-032077-1444