Religion, Theology, and Stranger Things

Adam J. Powell; Andrew J. Byers

doi:10.5771/9781978715738

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1572-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1573-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. The Approach and Contents of This Volume No access
2. Notes No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. 1. “One Day Is Fine, and Next Is Black”: Spiritualism in Hawkins No access
  2. The Technologist No access
  3. The Mentalist No access
  4. Control and Conquer No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Myth and Popular Culture No access
  2. Structuralism No access
  3. The Structural Method No access
  4. Season One Analysis No access
  5. The Fear of Stranger Things No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. The Bible and the Ambiguous Monster No access
  2. Eddie Munson No access
  3. Eleven No access
  4. Will Byers No access
  5. Defining and Accepting the Monstrous in Stranger Things No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Science and Empirical Realities Beyond Our Senses No access
  2. The Spiritual Power of Other Dimensions No access
  3. Conclusion: Three Theological Questions About Science and Enchantment No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. “Suzie, Do You Copy?”: The Complexity of LDS Gender Expectations No access
  2. 1. Mine House Is (Not) a House of Order No access
    2. The Absent Mother No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Discerning Evil No access
  2. D&D as a Model for Reality No access
  3. Living in a Horror Movie No access
  4. Dungeon Memories No access
  5. Conclusions: Learning with Stranger Things How to Responsibly Deploy the Imagination No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Vecna’s Curse No access
  2. Christian Suspicions of Rock Music No access
  3. Subverting Expectations of Rock Music No access
  4. Concluding Reflections No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Nostalgia and Home No access
  2. James K. A. Smith No access
  3. Byung-Chul Han No access
  4. Bonhoeffer on Home No access
  5. Notes No access
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5. 1. When Is Nostalgia? When Is Utopia? No access
  2. Intertextuality and the Sensual Word No access
  3. Liturgies Creating Worldviews: Prayer and D&D No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. What Might We Mean by Institutions? No access
  2. Portrayal of Institutions in Stranger Things No access
  3. Theology, Ethics, and the Skepticism of Institutions No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Supernatural Horror in the Gospels No access
  2. Christian Patriarchy in 1980s America No access
  3. Max and the Magdalene No access
  4. On Demonization and Demon Possession No access
  5. On Violence from and at the Margins No access
  6. On Grief No access
  7. Conclusion: On Violence Grief and Trauma Under Patriarchy No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Haunted and Unstable Worlds No access
  2. Infection and Boundary Crossing No access
  3. Fractured Memories No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. “There are no such things as gods and monsters . . .?” How Supernatural Narratives like Stranger Things and the Christian Gospels “Fragilize” Secular Creeds No access
  2. Ross, Matt, and John: The Duffer Brothers and the Fourth Evangelist No access
  3. Self: Authentic and Buffered, Yet Nostalgic for the Porous Past No access
  4. Place: Particular and Porous No access
  5. Evil: Agents, Instruments, Misidentification, and Planes of Conflict No access
  6. Salvation: From Within, from Below, and from Above No access
  7. Conclusion: Running out of the Immanent Frame No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
Afterword No access Pages 233 - 238
Index No access Pages 239 - 244
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 245 - 248