Religion, Theology, and Stranger Things (eBook, PDF)

Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope
Redaktion: Andrew, J.; Powell, Adam J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Religion, Theology and Stranger Things: Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope brings interdisciplinary analysis to the teeming spiritual side of the hit television series. With chapters from social scientists, historians, theologians, and Biblical scholars, the volume addresses the many different theological, religious, and supernatural themes present in the fictional world of Hawkins, Indiana. From spiritualism to secularism, Mormon gender norms to monsters of abnormality, rock & roll to Dungeons & Dragons, an international list of scholars come together to argue that imaginative realms like the one created by the Duffer brothers can serve to showcase and to scrutinize the common impulses and needs of our culture and ourselves. To venture into the darkness of the Upside Down is to venture into the depths of human experience. This volume explores the shadows and suggests a few paths back into the light.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978797437
• Artikelnr.: 75076779

Autorenporträt

Andrew J. Byers serves as lecturer in New Testament at Ridley Hall in the Cambridge Theological Federation and as an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Adam Powell is a lecturer in medical humanities in the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University (UK).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Andrew J. Byers
Adam Powell Part I: Spirits
Monsters
and Supernatural Science Chapter 1: Comfort
Control
and Christmas Lights: The Types and Techniques of Spirit Communication in Stranger Things
Season One
Adam Powell Chapter 2: The Myth of Stranger Things: A Structural Analysis of Monsters and Fears in Season One
Vivian Asimos Chapter 3: Defining the Normal: Monstrosity in Stranger Things
Brandon Grafius Chapter 4: Enchanted Science? The Supernatural Imagination of Stranger Things
Josh Reeves Part II: History
(Pop) Culture
and Nostalgic Contexts Chapter 5: Who Is Suzie Bingham? Gender and the 1980s Mormon Family in Stranger Things
Jana Reiss Chapter 6: "Do Not Be Overcome by Evil": Dungeons
Dragons
and the Satanic Panic in Stranger Things
Joseph P. Laycock Chapter 7: Fighting Satan with the Devil's Music? Subverting Suspicions of Demonic Influence on Rock 'n' Roll in Stranger Things Season 4
John Anthony Dunne Chapter 8: Home
Nostalgia
and Stranger Things
Andrew Root Chapter 9: Utopia
Intertextuality
and Liturgy: Nostalgia and Religion in Stranger Things
Melissa Conroy Part III: Theology
Ethics and Biblical Themes Chapter 10: "Peeking Behind Bauman's Curtain": A Theology and Ethics of Institutions in Stranger Things
Nathaniel A. Warne Adishian Chapter 11: Max and the Magdalene: On Violence
Grief
and Trauma Under Patriarchy
Siobhán Jolley Chapter 12: From Patmos to Hawkins: Slipping through Time and Space in Revelation and Stranger Things
Heather Macumber Chapter 13: Can Anything Good Come out of Hawkins? Self
Place
Evil
and Salvation in John's Gospel
Stranger Things
and the Secular Age
Andrew J. Byers Afterword: What Would Suzy
Erica
and Steve Say? Concluding Reflections
Andrew J. Byers
Adam Powell