This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors analyze everything from comic books and novels to television, movies, and theater as they portray yogis and their esoteric practices.
This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors analyze everything from comic books and novels to television, movies, and theater as they portray yogis and their esoteric practices.
Paul G. Hackett received his Ph.D. in religion and has taught at Columbia University.
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Foreword David Gordon White Editor's Preface Paul G. Hackett Acknowledgements Preliminary Notes Part I: Theatre and Film Introduction Ken Derry 1. The Yogi, the Prince, and the Courtesan: Izéÿl in Europe and America Samuel Thévoz 2. Supermen, Mystical Women, and Oriental Others: Dynamics of Race and Gender in Pop Cultural Yogis and the Universal Superhuman Anya P. Foxen 3. From the Razor's Edge to the Scalpel's Blade: Larry Darrell, Doctor Strange, and the Trope of the Rehabilitated Western Man as Yogi Paul G. Hackett Part II: Television and Serials Introduction Jane Naomi Iwamura and Paul G. Hackett 4. "I'll See You Again in Twenty-Five Years:" Tibetan Buddhism in David Lynch's Twin Peaks and American Pop Culture in the 90s Adam C. Krug 5. The Future is Not What it Used To Be: Religion, Yogic Power, and Tibet in Star Trek and Doctor Who Paul G. Hackett 6. The Blank Scriptures of the Xiyou ji: Interpretive Flexibility and Religious Stability in Post-1949 Adaptations of The Journey to the West Nathan Faries and Yuanfei Wang Part III: Comic Books and Graphic Novels Introduction A. David Lewis 7. The Spiritual Superhero: A Historical Overview of Tantra in Comics Albion M. Butters 8. The Implied Spider-Man: Transcreating Religious Imagery and Meaning in Spider-Man: India Rex Barnes 9. The Dark Knight of the Soul: Death as Initiatory Ordeal in Grant Morrison's Batman R.I.P. Joel Bordeaux Afterword Paul G. Hackett
Foreword David Gordon White Editor's Preface Paul G. Hackett Acknowledgements Preliminary Notes Part I: Theatre and Film Introduction Ken Derry 1. The Yogi, the Prince, and the Courtesan: Izéÿl in Europe and America Samuel Thévoz 2. Supermen, Mystical Women, and Oriental Others: Dynamics of Race and Gender in Pop Cultural Yogis and the Universal Superhuman Anya P. Foxen 3. From the Razor's Edge to the Scalpel's Blade: Larry Darrell, Doctor Strange, and the Trope of the Rehabilitated Western Man as Yogi Paul G. Hackett Part II: Television and Serials Introduction Jane Naomi Iwamura and Paul G. Hackett 4. "I'll See You Again in Twenty-Five Years:" Tibetan Buddhism in David Lynch's Twin Peaks and American Pop Culture in the 90s Adam C. Krug 5. The Future is Not What it Used To Be: Religion, Yogic Power, and Tibet in Star Trek and Doctor Who Paul G. Hackett 6. The Blank Scriptures of the Xiyou ji: Interpretive Flexibility and Religious Stability in Post-1949 Adaptations of The Journey to the West Nathan Faries and Yuanfei Wang Part III: Comic Books and Graphic Novels Introduction A. David Lewis 7. The Spiritual Superhero: A Historical Overview of Tantra in Comics Albion M. Butters 8. The Implied Spider-Man: Transcreating Religious Imagery and Meaning in Spider-Man: India Rex Barnes 9. The Dark Knight of the Soul: Death as Initiatory Ordeal in Grant Morrison's Batman R.I.P. Joel Bordeaux Afterword Paul G. Hackett
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