The Undead and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Undead and Theology write by Kim Paffenroth. This book was released on 2012-09-21. The Undead and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The academy and pop culture alike recognize the great symbolic and teaching value of the undead, whether vampires, zombies, or other undead or living-dead creatures. This has been explored variously from critiques of consumerism and racism, through explorations of gender and sexuality, to consideration of the breakdown of the nuclear family. Most academic examinations of the undead have been undertaken from the perspectives of philosophy and political theory, but another important avenue of exploration comes through theology. Through the vampire, the zombie, the Golem, and Cenobites, contributors address a variety of theological issues by way of critical reflection on the divine and the sacred in popular culture through film, television, graphic novels, and literature.
The Walking Dead and Philosophy
The Walking Dead and Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Walking Dead and Philosophy write by Wayne Yuen. This book was released on 2012. The Walking Dead and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Walking Dead" is both a hugely successful comics series and a popular TV show. This epic story of a zombie apocalypse is unique. It focuses on the long-term individual, social, and moral consequences of survival by small groups of humans in a world overrun by infected zombies. Guns, chainsaws, and machetes are not enough for survival: humans also need agreement on rules of conduct. Can equality or fairness have any polace in the post-apocalyptic world? Do theft or even assault and murder become okay under desperate circumstances? Who should be recognized as having political authority? What about eating human flesh? Should survivors have children?
Dharma of the Dead
Dharma of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dharma of the Dead write by Christopher M. Moreman. This book was released on 2018-07-13. Dharma of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what has been described as America's "death-denying culture." The existential crisis in zombie apocalyptic fiction brings to the fore the problem of humanity's search for meaning in an increasingly global and secular world. Zombies are analyzed in the context of Buddhist thought, in contrast with social and religious critiques from other works.
Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy
Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy write by Richard Greene. This book was released on 2010. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of philosophical essays about the undead: beings such as vampires and zombies who are physically or mentally dead yet not at rest. Topics addressed include the metaphysics and ethics of undeath"--Provided by publisher.
Theology and Horror
Theology and Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and Horror write by Brandon R. Grafius. This book was released on 2021-03-02. Theology and Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
