Theology and Vampires

Herausgeber: Potter, Madeline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the complex relationship between vampires and theology across time and media, bringing together established and emerging scholars to showcase how vampires help us think about the divine and our place within theological systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781978716896
• ISBN-10: 1978716893
• Artikelnr.: 71778699

Autorenporträt

Edited by Madeline Potter - Contributions by Shaona Barik; Leo Chu; Terance Espinoza; Mary Going; David K. Goodin; Jon Greenaway; Marthe-Siobhán Hecke; Gavin F. Hurley; Alison Milbank; Peter Morgan; Justin Mullis; Madeline Potter; Curtis Runstedler and Ka

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Introduction
Madeline Potter Chapter 1: Contesting Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction
Alison Milbank Chapter 2: 'Bless Me Lord
For I am Going to Sin:' Vampire Priests
the Role of Blood
Religion and Gothic Heresy
Jonathan Greenaway Chapter 3: Indian Vampires: Religion
Esotericism
Responses in English and Bengali Literature
Shaona Barik Chapter 4: What We [Actually] Do in the Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the Lens of Kostova's The Historian
David K. Goodin Chapter 5: Japanese Vampires for Christ: Vampire Media as Religious Invasion Narrative in Japan
Justin Mullis Chapter 6: In the Beginning
God Created Lilith: Vampiric Ontology
Gender and Lilith in True Blood and She Never Died
Mary Going Chapter 7: The Inoperative Bite: Aoi Tori
Vampire Narratives
and the Absence of Evil
Leo Chu Chapter 8: "We are on a Mission from God." - Alucard
Theology
Monsters
and Monstrosity in Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012)
Marthe-Siobhán Hecke Chapter 9: Vampire Priests and "Cult Messiahs" in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot
Curtis Runstedler Chapter 10: Bloody Scriptures: The Vampire's Place within the Bible of the Folk Tradition
Kari Sawden Chapter 11: Horizontal Vampirism
Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara's The Addiction
Gavin F. Hurley Chapter 12: Blade and the Spiritual Problem of Evil
Peter Morgan and Terance Espinoza