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Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse

Editat de Jennifer Baldwin, Daniel White Hodge Contribuţii de Will Abney, Adam Barkman, Whitney Bauman, Matthew William Brake, George A. Dunn, Jason T. Eberl, Rhiannon Grant, Dr Jo Henderson-Merrygold, Imran Khan, John C. McDowell, Dilyana Mincheva, Ryan Smock, Bennett Soenen, Lisa Stenmark, George Tsakiridis, Andrew T. Vink
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781793621405
ISBN-10: 1793621403
Pagini: 286
Ilustrații: 9 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue
Daniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin

Technology, Violence, and Sacrifice

Chapter One: "I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark's Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love
George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl

Chapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther
Matthew Brake

Chapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
Ken Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J. Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill

Power, Worth, and Society

Chapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok
Rhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold

Chapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor
Adam Barkman and Bennett Soenen

Chapter Six: "Who Are You?":René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Panther
Ryan Smock

Chapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust Political Theology
Andrew T. Vink

Recenzii

Marveling Religion stands as a powerful text, and the questions and conversations posed by the writers are engaging and challenging in the best possible ways. They name how these films offer representation and diversity while also spotlighting spaces and elements that continue to uphold problematic ideologies and worldviews. Marvel narratives are multivalent in their reception and can act as a mirror or prophetic lens to the toxic and insidious elements of our culture, while also still being bound to it as a product of a cultural time and place. From a teaching standpoint, the essays in this collection are a strong tool for engaging the variety of questions posed in them. On a personal note, I have used several of the essays from this text in my freshman interdisciplinary seminars. They have offered my students a great space to be guided through wrestling with questions of technology, otherness, and the monstrous in relationship to films and characters they know well. Marveling Religion is an important and valuable text to use as a conversation starter and scaffolding piece.