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Theology and Horror
Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination
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2021
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0798-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0799-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
234
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
1 Consider the Yattering No access
2 The Theological Origins of Horror No access
3 Mysterium Horrendum No access
4 Priests, Secrets, and Holy Water No access
5 “We Have to Stop the Apocalypse!” No access
6 Gnostic Terror No access
7 A Longing for Reconciliation No access
8 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? No access
9 Endings That Never Happen No access
10 “Do I Look Like Someone Who Cares What God Thinks?” No access
11 Ferocious Marys and Dark Alessas No access
12 “They Say with Jason Death Comes First/He’ll Make Hell a Place on Earth” No access
