Marveling Religion

Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Herausgeber: Baldwin, Jennifer; White Hodge, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781793621382
• ISBN-10: 1793621381
• Artikelnr.: 63820305

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Baldwin is director of Grounding Flight Wellness Center, Woodstock, Georgia. Her primary area of scholarship is the intersection of traumatology and systematic theology. Daniel White Hodge is associate professor of intercultural communication and chair of the communication arts department at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue
Daniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin
Technology, Violence, and Sacrifice
Chapter One: "I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark's
Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love
George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl
Chapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther
Matthew Brake
Chapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
Ken Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J.
Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill
Power, Worth, and Society
Chapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in
Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok
Rhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold
Chapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor
Adam Barkman and Bennett Soenen
Chapter Six: "Who Are You?":René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black
Panther
Ryan Smock
Chapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust
Political Theology
Andrew T. Vink
Chapter Eight: Mysterio as Antichrist in SpiderMan: Far From Home
George Tsakiridis
Deconstructing Norms, Imagining the New
Chapter Nine: Science and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Deconstructing the
Boundary between Science, Technology, and Religion
Lisa Stenmark
Chapter Ten: Religion, Science, and the Marvel Universe: Re-Imagining
Human-Earth Relations
Whitney Bauman and Imran Khan
Chapter Eleven: "Open Your Eye": Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Trauma
Resolution
Jennifer Baldwin
Forming Identity
Chapter Twelve: Marvelling at Captain Danvers, Or What is So Super About
Our Heroes: Contesting the Identity Politics of Self-Other
John C. McDowell
Chapter Thirteen: The Super Muslim and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A
Complicated Trajectory of Fantasy and Agency
Dilyana Mincheva
Chapter Fourteen: Bad Girls Turned Superwomen: A Critical Appraisal of the
MCU Archetype for Superheroines
Will Abney