Religion and Its Monsters

ISBN-13: 9780367440541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Timothy Beal

Opis

Updated with a new chapter which enagages cultural fascinations about artificial intelligence as it relates to religion and the monstrous, this new edition is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the development of horror theory within religious studies in the two decades since its first publication.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Second Edition  Introduction to the First Edition: Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion  Part One: Religion and Its Monsters  1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East  2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World  3. The Sleep of Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering  4. From the Whirlwind: Where God Outmonsters Job  5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the Rabbis  6. To the Devil: John’s Great Red Dragon  Part Two: Monsters and Their Religion  7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order  8. Other Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters  9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula  10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time  11. Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed  12. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture  13. Gods, Monsters, and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene  Conclusion: Here Be Monsters.  Notes   Index

O autorze

Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, and Washington Post and is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible and When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.