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Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous
Of Gods and Monsters
Natasha L. Mikles (Redaktør) Joseph P. Laycock (Redaktør) Frank Chu (Innledning) Douglas E. Cowan (Innledning) Brandon R. Grafius (Innledning) Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Innledning) Heidi Ippolito (Innledning) Joseph P. Laycock (Innledning) Whitney May (Innledning) Natasha L. Mikles (Innledning) Leland Merritt (Innledning) Wafi Momin (Innledning) Eric D. Mortensen (Innledning) Justin Mullis (Innledning) Madah Richey (Innledning) Stephan Sanchez (Innledning) William Blake Smith (Innledning) Lee Weiss (Innledning)
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"This is a collection I’ve been waiting on for years. The sacred and the profane have frequently created a unnatural union in our monsters. Scholars of a variety of disciplines have tried to make sense of where these lines meet. This volume, and the incredible collection of scholars found in it, moves beyond some of the iconic studies in the field, changing much of that we think we know about monsters, religion, the sense of the holy, and how all of these intersect in our personal and collective experience. New insights pop on every page and prepare to have older theories autopsied and buried. This book combined academic rigor with a profound sense of the dangerous cultural moment in which it appears, this book will make scholars and monster fans alike rethink what those bumps in the night really mean."
» W. Scott Poole, author of Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, College of Char
Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of "monster theory" within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary valleys of the Himalayas to ghost tours in Savannah, Georgia, the volume examines the variegated nature of the monstrous as well as the cultural functions of monsters in shaping how we see the world and ourselves. Les mer
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Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of "monster theory" within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary valleys of the Himalayas to ghost tours in Savannah, Georgia, the volume examines the variegated nature of the monstrous as well as the cultural functions of monsters in shaping how we see the world and ourselves. In this, the authors constructively assess the state of the two fields of monster theory and religious studies, and propose new directions in how these fields can inform each other. The case studies included illuminate the ways in which monsters reinforce the categories through which a given culture sees the world. At the same time, the volume points to how monsters appear to question, disrupt, or challenge those categories, creating an 'unsettling' or surplus of meaning.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781793640246
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"This is a collection I’ve been waiting on for years. The sacred and the profane have frequently created a unnatural union in our monsters. Scholars of a variety of disciplines have tried to make sense of where these lines meet. This volume, and the incredible collection of scholars found in it, moves beyond some of the iconic studies in the field, changing much of that we think we know about monsters, religion, the sense of the holy, and how all of these intersect in our personal and collective experience. New insights pop on every page and prepare to have older theories autopsied and buried. This book combined academic rigor with a profound sense of the dangerous cultural moment in which it appears, this book will make scholars and monster fans alike rethink what those bumps in the night really mean."
» W. Scott Poole, author of Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, College of Char