Theology, Religion and The Witcher

Gods and Golden Dragons
Herausgeber: Cameron, Yael Thomas; Hoskin, Jonathan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whether intentional or not, the power of a moment in popular culture like The Witcher can illuminate and question what might be taken for granted or left unseen in our world. Theology, Religion and The Witcher: Gods and Golden Dragons takes a profound look at the intersection of popular culture and religious studies in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher. The twelve contributors offer close readings and analysis of an eclectic tapestry of characters and stories from The Witcher games, live action role play, Netflix series, short stories and novels. This book is not only an exploration of religious symbolism or theology in the stories, but how dialogue, events and imagery in The Witcher intersect with the real world in which we live, where religious ideologies continue to shape global politics and lives, shifting and pressing upon the entirety of civilization, for better or for worse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978715240
• ISBN-10: 1978715242
• Artikelnr.: 72699561

Autorenporträt

Yael Thomas Cameron is senior lecturer in education at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Jonathan Hoskin is independent researcher and writer based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Yael Thomas Cameron
Part One: Religion, Spirituality and The Witcher
Chapter One Expanding the "Bounds of Reason": [Non]Overlapping Magisteria
in the Witcherverse
Kristine Larsen
Chapter Two: A Crone of Judgment: Queen Meve in Thronebreaker: The Witcher
Tales
Tof Eklund
Chapter Three: "See You on the Path": 5 Zywiolów's International Witcher
School LARP as Sacred Space and Cinephany
Seth Pierce
Chapter Four: Remembering her/Her: "The Last Place" as Sacred Feminine
Indigeneity
Yael Thomas Cameron and Eunice Faustino Gaerlan
Chapter Five: "Rare Species" and the Transversal Alliance: The Hopepunk
Possibility of Transformation as a Collective Practice
Joanne Pascoe
Part Two: Theology and The Witcher
Chapter Six: The Third Evil: Politics and Morality in Neo-Anabaptism and
The Witcher
Jack Holloway and Matthew Brake
Chapter Seven: The Witcher, Boehme, and the Cost of Creation
Parker Cotton
Chapter Eight: Something More: The Witcher as an Image of the Role of
Responsibility in Christian Destiny
Benjamin Leeper
Chapter Nine: Beauty & Chaos: The Interconnection of Disability, Theology,
and Magic in The Witcher
Seth Pierce
Chapter Ten: On the Essence and Origins of The Witcher's "Monsters":
Natural or Moral?
Walter Barta and Graham Lee
About the Contributors