Marveling Religion

Jennifer Baldwin; Daniel White Hodge

doi:10.5771/9781793621399

Summary

Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume that explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse. The focus of the shared inquiry are various films comprising the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and corresponding Netflix series. The contributors explore various religious themes and how they intersect with culture through the canon on the MCU. The first part focuses on responses to the societal, governmental, and cultural context that solidified with clarity during the 2016 Presidential Election cycle in the United States and in the following administration. Additionally, it provides lenses and resources for engaging in productive public actions. Part two explores cultural resources of sustaining activism and resistance as well as some of the key issues at stake in public action. The third part centers on militarization and resistance to state violence. Taken in concert, these three sections work together to provide frames for understanding while also keeping us engaged in the concrete action to mobilize social change. The overarching aim of the volume is to promote critical discourse regarding the dynamics of activism and political resistance.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2138-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2139-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 266
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. 1. The Fallen World of Tony Stark No access
  2. The Question Concerning Tony Stark No access
  3. Soft Wax, Hard Science, and Redeeming Love No access
  4. “I Think I’d Just Cut the Wire” No access
  5. Proof That Tony Stark Has a Heart No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Myths, Sacrifices, and Scapegoats No access
  2. Vengeance, Violence, and Mimetic Desire No access
  3. Sacrificial Crisis, Twins, and a New Myth No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
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3. 1. “Sensational Origin Issue!” No access
  2. “Dishwasher Lazarus” No access
  3. “Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? Hip Hop’s Narrative in Cage” No access
  4. “That’s the last time you will ever call me a bitch” No access
  5. “I’m not a monster” No access
  6. “No one can cage a man if he truly wants to be free” No access
  7. “Always forward, forward always” No access
  8. “Do What You Can, Kid” No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. References No access
  11. Filmography No access
1. 1. Introducing the Films No access
  2. Religious Themes No access
  3. Religion, Power, and the Divine Right of Kings No access
  4. Appropriation, Appreciation, or Annihilation? No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Notes No access
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3. 1. Girard on the Root of All Conflict No access
  2. Modeling Action versus Modeling Ideal No access
  3. Killmonger’s Mimetic Origin No access
  4. Call to Responsibility No access
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4. 1. “Just So We Are All in Agreement”: Setting Terms and Relations No access
  2. 1. Johann Baptist Metz: Finding God in Dangerous Memories No access
    2. Jürgen Moltmann: Rejecting an Impassible God No access
    3. Dorothee Sölle: A God That Suffers with Us No access
  3. Rethinking Thor (and the Avengers) as a Passable God No access
  4. Notes No access
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5. 1. The Antichrist in Christian Scripture No access
  2. Mysterio as Antichrist No access
  3. Spider-Man/Peter Parker as the Fulfillment of the Promise No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Science and Technology and Utopia No access
  2. MCU Phase One: Utopian Visions and Dystopian Warnings No access
  3. Phases Two and Three: Magic, Wakanda, and the Multiverse No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Hybridity and the Problem with Diversity and Integration No access
  2. Beyond Chronological Space-Time: Multiple Times and Multiple Narratives No access
  3. 3. Decentering Human Agency / (Thanos, The Eternals, and the Kree) No access
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3. 1. Looking through a Key Hole No access
  2. To Show You Just How Much You Don’t Know No access
  3. What’s In That Tea? No access
  4. Widening the Keyhole No access
  5. Reorienting the Spirit: Into the Mystical Arts No access
  6. Open the Door No access
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1. 1. Superheroes in Kairotic Time Post 9/11 No access
  2. Captain Marvel and a Politics of Hospitality No access
  3. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. The Age of the Superhero: Positioning Islam and Islamic forms of Imagination Within and Beyond the Marvel Universe No access
  2. The Superhero as a Positive Model, Savior, and Force of Good in the World No access
  3. The Ambiguous Muslim Vigilante as a Force of Justice and Revenge in the World No access
  4. What Is a Muslim Superhero? The Model of Fethi Benslama No access
  5. The Melancholia of the Supermuslim: the Muslim Reception of Jessica Jones No access
  6. The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Supermuslim: A Transmedia World No access
  7. Notes No access
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3. 1. Tropes, the Monomyth, and Postfeminism No access
  2. The Safe and Easy Choice No access
  3. Natasha Romanoff No access
  4. Gamora No access
  5. Wanda Maximoff No access
  6. Hope van Dyne No access
  7. Carol Danvers No access
  8. Conclusion: Some New Directions in Phase 3 No access
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Index No access Pages 257 - 260
About the Contributors No access Pages 261 - 266