Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous explores the intersection of monster theory and religious studies. Within these chapters lurk a gamut of strange and demonic creatures from the Bronze Age to contemporary popular culture, illuminating how monsters reflect cultural ways of seeing the world and exist in surplus of named categories.
Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous explores the intersection of monster theory and religious studies. Within these chapters lurk a gamut of strange and demonic creatures from the Bronze Age to contemporary popular culture, illuminating how monsters reflect cultural ways of seeing the world and exist in surplus of named categories.
Natasha L. Mikles is lecturer at Texas State University Joseph P. Laycock is associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University
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Table of Contents PART I: Thinking with Monsters Chapter 1: Five Further Theses on Monster Theory and Religious Studies Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock Chapter 2: Re-Iterations: On Tellings, Variants, and Why Monsters Always Come Back Doug Cowan Chapter 3: Horror and Bible (Six Theses) Brandon R. Grafius Chapter 4: A Biological Model of Monster Flaps Blake Smith PART II: Monsters Guarding the Gates Chapter 5: The Idea of Evil and Messianic Deliverance in the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition of South Asia Wafi Momin Chapter 6: Ghost stories from Tales of Retribution: Understanding elements of Seventeenth-century Japanese Ghost Stories Frank Chu Chapter 7: Of Monsters and Invisible Villages: Nags myi rgod Tales of the Tibetans of Gyalthang Eric D. Mortensen Chapter 8: Godly Aromas and Monstrous Stenches: An Analysis of Buddhist New Year Fumigation Rituals in an Indo-Himalayan Borderland Rohit Singh Chapter 9: Man, Yeti, And Mi-go: The Transgressive History of A Monstrous Word Lee W
Table of Contents PART I: Thinking with Monsters Chapter 1: Five Further Theses on Monster Theory and Religious Studies Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock Chapter 2: Re-Iterations: On Tellings, Variants, and Why Monsters Always Come Back Doug Cowan Chapter 3: Horror and Bible (Six Theses) Brandon R. Grafius Chapter 4: A Biological Model of Monster Flaps Blake Smith PART II: Monsters Guarding the Gates Chapter 5: The Idea of Evil and Messianic Deliverance in the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition of South Asia Wafi Momin Chapter 6: Ghost stories from Tales of Retribution: Understanding elements of Seventeenth-century Japanese Ghost Stories Frank Chu Chapter 7: Of Monsters and Invisible Villages: Nags myi rgod Tales of the Tibetans of Gyalthang Eric D. Mortensen Chapter 8: Godly Aromas and Monstrous Stenches: An Analysis of Buddhist New Year Fumigation Rituals in an Indo-Himalayan Borderland Rohit Singh Chapter 9: Man, Yeti, And Mi-go: The Transgressive History of A Monstrous Word Lee W
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