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Theology Horror and Fiction
Author | : Jonathan Greenaway |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501351808 |
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Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.
Horror and Religion
Author | : Eleanor Beal,Jon Greenaway |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786834416 |
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Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been deployed over the course of Horror fiction’s development, from a Gothic mode based in theological polemics to a more distinct genre in the twenty-first century that explores the afterlife of religion. Horror and Religion focuses on the Horror genre and its characteristics of the body, sexuality, trauma and race, and the essays explore how Horror fiction has shifted emphasis from anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism to incorporate less understood historical and theological issues, such as the ‘Death of God’ and the spiritual destabilisation of the secular. By confronting spiritual conflicts in Horror fiction, this volume offers new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as horrifying.
Theology Horror and Fiction
Author | : Jonathan Greenaway |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1501351818 |
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"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"--
Holy Horror
Author | : Steve A. Wiggins |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781476674667 |
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What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
Science Fiction Theology
Author | : Alan P. R. Gregory |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Christianity and literature |
ISBN | : 1602584621 |
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Explores the sublime in Christian theology and science fiction.
America s Dark Theologian
Author | : Douglas E. Cowan |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781479894734 |
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America's dark theologian: reading Stephen King religiously -- Thin spots: what peeks through the cracks in the world -- Deadfall: ghost stories as God-talk -- A jumble of blacks and whites: becoming religious -- Return to Ackerman's field: ritual and the unseen order -- Forty years in Maine: Stephen King and the varieties of religious experience -- If it be your will: theodicy, morality, and the nature of God -- The land beyond: cosmology and the never-ending questions
A Christian Response to Horror Cinema
Author | : Peter Fraser |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781476619729 |
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Christianity has had a powerful influence on every sphere of Western art, even art which on the surface might seem antithetical to the faith. This book argues that point with an analysis of the horror film genre, examining nine classics which illustrate the evolution of horror and reveal a culture haunted by fear of the unspeakable. The history and literary roots of the horror genre are also discussed. The author concludes that our innate dread of evil and the imperative of warding it off are the key mechanics of the horror experience. Films covered include Vampyr (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Thing (1951), Night of the Demon (1957), The Wicker Man (1973), The Exorcist (1973), Halloween (1978), Ringu (1998) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006).
Religion and Its Monsters
Author | : Timothy Beal |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781135283483 |
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Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante's Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.