Theology Horror And Fiction
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Theology Horror And Fiction
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Author : Jonathan Greenaway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Theology Horror And Fiction written by Jonathan Greenaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.
"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"--
Horror And Religion
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Author : Eleanor Beal
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Horror And Religion written by Eleanor Beal and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been deployed over the course of Horror fiction’s development, from a Gothic mode based in theological polemics to a more distinct genre in the twenty-first century that explores the afterlife of religion. Horror and Religion focuses on the Horror genre and its characteristics of the body, sexuality, trauma and race, and the essays explore how Horror fiction has shifted emphasis from anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism to incorporate less understood historical and theological issues, such as the ‘Death of God’ and the spiritual destabilisation of the secular. By confronting spiritual conflicts in Horror fiction, this volume offers new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as horrifying.
Theology Horror And Fiction
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Author : Jonathan Greenaway
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-12-10
Theology Horror And Fiction written by Jonathan Greenaway and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.
Horror Fiction In The Protestant Tradition
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Author : Victor Sage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Horror Fiction In The Protestant Tradition written by Victor Sage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Theology And Horror
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Author : Brandon R. Grafius
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Theology And Horror written by Brandon R. Grafius and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Religion categories.
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.
Holy Horror
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Author : Steve A. Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-12-14
Holy Horror written by Steve A. Wiggins and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-14 with Performing Arts categories.
What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
America S Dark Theologian
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Author : Douglas E. Cowan
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-06-12
America S Dark Theologian written by Douglas E. Cowan and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror stories Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have given us alternative ways to address the fundamental quandaries of existence. Horror stories, in particular, with their focus on questions of violence and mortality, speak urgently to the primal fears embedded in such existential mysteries. With more than fifty novels to his name, and hundreds of millions of copies sold, few writers have spent more time contemplating those fears than Stephen King. Yet despite being one of the most widely read authors of all time, King is woefully understudied. America’s Dark Theologian is the first in-depth investigation into how King treats religion in his horror fiction. Considering works such as Carrie, The Dead Zone, Misery, The Shining, and many more, Douglas Cowan explores the religious imagery, themes, characters, and, most importantly, questions that haunt Stephen King’s horror stories. Religion and its trappings are found throughout King’s fiction, but what Cowan reveals is a writer skeptical of the certainty of religious belief. Describing himself as a “fallen away” Methodist, King is less concerned with providing answers to our questions, than constantly challenging both those who claim to have answers and the answers they proclaim. Whether he is pondering the existence of other worlds, exploring the origins of religious belief and how it is passed on, probing the nature of the religious experience, or contemplating the existence of God, King invites us to question everything we think we know.
Science Fiction Theology
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Author : Alan P. R. Gregory
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Science Fiction Theology written by Alan P. R. Gregory and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Christianity and literature categories.
Explores the sublime in Christian theology and science fiction.
Christian Horror On The Compatibility Of A Biblical Worldview And The Horror Genre 2nd Edition
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Author : Mike Duran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Christian Horror On The Compatibility Of A Biblical Worldview And The Horror Genre 2nd Edition written by Mike Duran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with categories.
The Theological Turn In Contemporary Gothic Fiction
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Author : Simon Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-21
The Theological Turn In Contemporary Gothic Fiction written by Simon Marsden and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively – and often subversively – with theological texts and traditions. This creative engagement is reflected in Gothic fiction’s exploration of theological concepts including sin and evil, Christology and the messianic, resurrection, eschatology and apocalypse. Through readings of fiction by Gothic and horror writers including Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, William Peter Blatty and others, this book demonstrates that Christianity continues to haunt the Gothic imagination and that the genre’s openness to the mysterious, numinous and non-rational opens space in which to explore religious beliefs and experiences less easily accessible to more overtly realist forms of representation. The book offers a new perspective on contemporary Gothic fiction that will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Gothic and of the relationship between literature and religion more generally.