Format:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781978706163
Series Statement:
Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture Series
Content:
Theology and the Marvel Universe combines cutting-edge scholarship on theology with the comic, film, and television stories of the Marvel Universe. Fourteen contributors from around the world engage these stories in a theological dialogue that highlights the significance of these stories as a vibrant part of our cultural mythology.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sacred and the Superhero -- Chapter One. What Did It Cost? Sacrifice and Kenosis in The Infinity Saga -- Chapter Two. "I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be": The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones -- Chapter Three. Mythology, Mimesis, and Apocalypse in Jonathan Hickman's Avengers -- Chapter Four. "Because You Exist": Biblical Literature and Violence in the X-Men Comic Books -- Chapter Five. The Gospel According to Thanos: Violence, Utopia, and the Case for a Material Theology -- Chapter Six. "Those Are the Ancestors You Hear": Marvel's Luke Cage and Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Creation -- Chapter Seven. Spider-Man and the Theology of Weakness -- Chapter Eight. Of Venom and Virtue: Venom as Insight into Issues of Identity, the Human Condition, and Virtue -- Chapter Nine. Matt Murdock's Ill-Fitting Catholic Faith in Netflix's Daredevil -- Chapter Ten. Gods upon Gods: Hierarchies of Divinity in the Marvel Universe -- Chapter Eleven. The Thor Movies and the "Available" Myth: Mythic Reinvention in Marvel Movies -- Chapter Twelve. Thor: Ragnarok, Postcolonial Theology, and Life Together -- Chapter Thirteen. Savage Monster or Grieving Mother Sabra and Marvel's Political Theology of Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine -- Chapter Fourteen. Modern Re-Enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
9781978706156
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781978706156
Language:
English
