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Theology and Vampires: Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture

Editat de Madeline Potter Contribuţii de Shaona Barik, Leo Chu, Terance Espinoza, Mary Going, David K. Goodin, Jon Greenaway, Marthe-Siobhán Hecke, Gavin F. Hurley, Alison Milbank, Peter Morgan, Justin Mullis, Curtis Runstedler, Kari Sawden
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What can vampires teach us about God? How can they reshape the way we think about religion, and our relationship with the divine? Through a thorough analysis of the relationship between theology and vampires, Theology and Vampires provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry. Contributions to the volume assess vampires and their role in articulating theological thought, bringing together some of the classical vampire tales of the 19th century, with contemporary iterations of the figure. Considering how vampires are used to ask theological questions across media, from literature through to video games, this volume paints a complex and comprehensive picture of the often overlooked manner in which vampires not only reflect but also actively shape theological modes of enquiry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978716896
ISBN-10: 1978716893
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illustrations;
Dimensiuni: 150 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Fortress Academic
Seria Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction, Madeline Potter
Chapter 1: Contesting Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction, Alison Milbank
Chapter 2: 'Bless Me Lord, For I am Going to Sin:' Vampire Priests, the Role of Blood, Religion and Gothic Heresy, Jonathan Greenaway
Chapter 3: Indian Vampires: Religion, Esotericism, Responses in English and Bengali Literature, Shaona Barik
Chapter 4: What We [Actually] Do in the Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the Lens of Kostova's The Historian, David K. Goodin
Chapter 5: Japanese Vampires for Christ: Vampire Media as Religious Invasion Narrative in Japan, Justin Mullis
Chapter 6: In the Beginning, God Created Lilith: Vampiric Ontology, Gender and Lilith in True Blood and She Never Died, Mary Going
Chapter 7: The Inoperative Bite: Aoi Tori, Vampire Narratives, and the Absence of Evil, Leo Chu
Chapter 8: "We are on a Mission from God." - Alucard, Theology, Monsters, and Monstrosity in Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012), Marthe-Siobhán Hecke
Chapter 9: Vampire Priests and "Cult Messiahs" in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, Curtis Runstedler
Chapter 10: Bloody Scriptures: The Vampire's Place within the Bible of the Folk Tradition, Kari Sawden
Chapter 11: Horizontal Vampirism, Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara's The Addiction, Gavin F. Hurley
Chapter 12: Blade and the Spiritual Problem of Evil, Peter Morgan and Terance Espinoza

Recenzii

Theology and Vampires provides an historically and geographically comprehensive account of the theological journey undertaken by the vampire from the nineteenth century to the present day. From Britain to India and Japan, these essays bear witness to the complex manifestation of vampirism in a variety of national and theological contexts. This volume charts the rich theological development of the undead vampire in novels, films, and manga. This is an important book for any scholar working on the history of the vampire across media forms.
This welcome new volume, edited expertly by Madeline Potter, applies the recent "religious turn" in Gothic studies to one of horror's most enduring archetypes: the vampire. It does so within a rich global context, examining literary vampirism's engagement with different theologies around the world and beyond the West. Collectively, the impressive contributions reveal how the vampire has retained an intimate relationship with shifting concepts and practices of belief from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Contrary to popular images of the vampire as a demonic prince of darkness that fears the sign of the cross, this fine collection of essays reveals a complex figure that continues to be re-invented in changing religious, national and theological contexts. If the vampires that emerge here can still be the enemies of the sacred and a lens through which to examine the nature of human and metaphysical evil, they can also confront a secular culture with profound theological questions. Recent scholarship has recognized the Gothic's engagement with religion; this collection adds to the field by demonstrating the range of theological ideas embodied by one of the genre's most famous monsters.
This is a worthwhile volume. The editor and publisher are to be commended for bringing together a group of scholars to explore theology by way of tales of the vampire that continues to provide fodder for reflection by scholars and non-scholars, as well as open-minded theologians.