Theology and Horror

Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination
Herausgeber: Grafius, Brandon R.; Morehead, John W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an exploration of theology and horror, this book explores how questions of spirituality, divinity and religious structures are raised, complicated, and even sometimes answered (at least partially) by works of horror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781978707986
• ISBN-10: 1978707983
• Artikelnr.: 60904850

Autorenporträt

Brandon R. Grafius is associate professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary. John W. Morehead is an independent scholar who specializes in new religious movements, religion and popular culture, and interreligious conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theology and Horror
Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead
Section One: Horrifying Foundations
Chapter 1 Consider the Yattering: The Infernal Order and the Religious
Imagination in Real Time Douglas E. Cowan
Chapter 2 The Theological Origins of Horror Steve A. Wiggins
Chapter 3 Mysterium Horrendum: Exploring Otto's Concept of the Numinous in
Stoker, Machen, and Lovecraft Jack Hunter
Section Two: Christianizing the Monster
Chapter 4 Priests, Secrets, and Holy Water: All I Ever Learned About
Catholicism I Learned from Horror Films Karr¿ Shimabukuro
Chapter 5 "We Have to Stop the Apocalypse!": Pre- Millennial
(Mis)Representations of Revelation and Eschaton in Horror Cinema Kevin J.
Wetmore, Jr.
Chapter 6 Gnostic Terror: Subverting the Narrative of Horror Alyssa J.
Beall
Section Three: Paranormal World, Monstrous History
Chapter 7 A Longing for Reconciliation: The Ghost Story as Demand for
Corporeal and Terrestrial Justice Joshua Wise
Chapter 8 Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Two Models of Christian
Theological Engagement with Lycanthropy Michael A. Hammett
Chapter 9 Endings that Never Happen: Otherness, Indecent Theology,
Apocalypse, & Zombies Jessi Knippel
Section Four: Readings in Theology and the Horror Film
Chapter 10 "Do I Look Like Someone Who Cares What God Thinks?": Narrative
Ambiguity, Religion, and the Afterlife in the Hellraiser Franchise Mark
Richard Adams
Chapter 11 Ferocious Marys and Dark Alessas: The Portrayal of Religious
Matriarchies in Silent Hill Amy Beddows
Chapter 12 "They Say with Jason Death Comes First/ He'll Make Hell a Place
on Earth": The Functions of Hell in New Line's Jason Sequels Wickham
Clayton