Theology and Horror (eBook, PDF)

Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination
Redaktion: Grafius, Brandon R.; Morehead, John W.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought - questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place in the universe, the distribution of justice, and what it means to live a good life, among many others. Such exploration often involves a theological conversation. Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination pursues questions regarding non-physical realities, spaces where both divinity and horror dwell. Through an exploration of theology and horror, the contributors explore how questions of spirituality, divinity, and religious structures are raised, complicated, and even sometimes answered (at least partially) by works of horror.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978758858
• Artikelnr.: 74849980

Autorenporträt

Brandon R. Grafius is associate professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary. John W. Morehead is an independent scholar who specializes in new religious movements, religion and popular culture, and interreligious conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theology and Horror
Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead
Section One: Horrifying Foundations
Chapter 1 Consider the Yattering: The Infernal Order and the Religious
Imagination in Real Time Douglas E. Cowan
Chapter 2 The Theological Origins of Horror Steve A. Wiggins
Chapter 3 Mysterium Horrendum: Exploring Otto's Concept of the Numinous in
Stoker, Machen, and Lovecraft Jack Hunter
Section Two: Christianizing the Monster
Chapter 4 Priests, Secrets, and Holy Water: All I Ever Learned About
Catholicism I Learned from Horror Films Karr? Shimabukuro
Chapter 5  "We Have to Stop the Apocalypse!": Pre- Millennial
(Mis)Representations of Revelation and Eschaton in Horror Cinema Kevin J.
Wetmore, Jr.
Chapter 6 Gnostic Terror: Subverting the Narrative of Horror Alyssa J.
Beall
Section Three: Paranormal World, Monstrous History
Chapter 7 A Longing for Reconciliation: The Ghost Story as Demand for
Corporeal and Terrestrial Justice Joshua Wise
Chapter 8 Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wol