Timothy Beal

Religion and Its Monsters

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Produktbeschreibung

Updated with a new chapter which enagages cultural fascinations about artificial intelligence as it relates to religion and the monstrous, this new edition is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the development of horror theory within religious studies in the two decades since its first publication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780367440381
• ISBN-10: 0367440385
• Artikelnr.: 64625484

Autorenporträt

Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, and Washington Post and is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible and When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition:
Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion Part One: Religion
and Its Monsters 1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East
2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World 3. The Sleep of
Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering 4. From the Whirlwind: Where God
Outmonsters Job 5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the
Rabbis 6. To the Devil: John's Great Red Dragon Part Two: Monsters and
Their Religion 7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order 8. Other
Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters 9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity
and Danger in Dracula 10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time 11.
Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed 12. Our Monsters,
Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture 13. Gods, Monsters, and Machines:
Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene Conclusion: Here Be Monsters.
Notes Index