Religion and its monsters

Author(s)

• Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler)

Bibliographic Information

Religion and its monsters

Timothy K. Beal

Routledge, 2002

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-227) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante's Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and ItsMonsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part One Religion and Its Monsters
• Chapter 1 Chaos Gods
• Chapter 2 The Bible and Horror
• Chapter 3 The Sleep of Wisdom
• Chapter 4 From the Whirlwind
• Chapter 5 Dinner and a Show
• Chapter 6 To the Devil
• Part Two Monsters and Their Religion
• Chapter 7 New Monsters in Old Skins
• Chapter 8 Other Gods
• Chapter 9 The Blood is the Life
• Chapter 10 Screening Monsters
• Chapter 11 Ecomonster
• Chapter 12 Our Monsters, Ourselves
• conclusion Conclusion

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Details

• NCID: BA56511438
• ISBN:
  • 9780415925884
• LCCN: 2001019660
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 235 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BT160
  • DC21 : 291.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Theodicy