Theology, Religion and The Witcher

Yael Thomas Cameron; Jonathan Hoskin

doi:10.5771/9781978715257

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1524-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1525-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 188
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. 1. “Not Pleasant, Polite or . . . Safe”: The Science/Religion Divide No access
  2. NOMA on the Continent No access
  3. Geralt and Nenneke: When the Priestess Becomes the Voice of Reason No access
  4. Yennefer and Modron Freyja: Religion Turning the Table on Science No access
  5. Syncretism and Sapkowski’s Universe No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Maiden, Mother, and Crone? No access
  2. A Note on Existing Scholarship No access
  3. “Call for a Witcher!” No access
  4. Nilfgaard as Christian Empire No access
  5. Son Usurps Mother No access
  6. All Those Closest to Her No access
  7. The Crone from Hagge No access
  8. The Emperor’s Hand No access
  9. The Bad Mother No access
  10. A Crone Ascends No access
  11. Rise, Geralt of Rivia No access
  12. Mother and Son No access
  13. Conclusion No access
  14. Notes No access
  15. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Becoming a Witcher: Life in the LARP No access
  2. Sacred Play No access
  3. A Cinephany of Monster Slayers No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. “Welcome” to Brokilon Forest No access
  2. The Babaylan No access
  3. The Forgetting of her/Her No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Hopepunk No access
  2. Endurance No access
  3. Mothers, Monsters, and Machines No access
  4. Transformation No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Problem of Moral Equivalency No access
  2. Ecclesiology, Relationships, and the Trivialization of Politics No access
  3. Politics and Everyday Life No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Boehme’s Picture of Creation No access
  2. Magic and Creation in The Witcher No access
  3. Imago Dei as Creative Potential No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Geralt’s Destiny in The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny No access
  2. The Characterization of Geralt No access
  3. A Question of Price No access
  4. Sword of Destiny No access
  5. “Something More” No access
  6. The Contemporary Cultural Context of Destiny No access
  7. The Theology of Destiny No access
  8. Two Kinds of Destiny No access
  9. God and the Neighbor No access
  10. Destiny in The Witcher No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. Notes No access
  13. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Chaos and The Crip: Yennefer as “Magical Cripple” Trope No access
  2. Theology, Monsters, and Magic No access
  3. Visibility and Able-ity No access
  4. Cultivating the Compulsory No access
  5. Conclusion: Authors of Chaos No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
5. 1. The Witcher’s Natural Philosophy and Theology No access
  2. 1. Malfunctional Monsters No access
    2. Artificial Monsters No access
  3. 1. Speciated Monsters No access
    2. Mutational Monsters No access
    3. Fitness Monsters No access
    4. Otherworldly Monsters No access
    5. Magical Monsters No access
    6. Other Monsters No access
  4. The Witcher’s Moral-Natural Philosophy No access
  5. 1. Moral-Natural Agents No access
    2. Immoral Unnatural Agents No access
  6. 1. Moral Unnatural Agents No access
    2. Immoral Natural Agents No access
  7. (De)Crying “Monster” No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 183 - 184
About the Contributors No access Pages 185 - 188