Theology and the Marvel Universe

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0617-0 (ISBN)

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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.

In Theology and the Marvel Universe, fourteen contributors examine theological themes and ideas in the comic books, television shows, and films that make up the grand narrative of the Marvel Universe. Engaging in dialogue with theological thinkers such as Willie James Jennings, Franz Rosenzweig, Søren Kierkegaard, René Girard, Kelly Brown Douglas, and many others, the chapters explore a wide variety of topics, including violence, sacrifice, colonialism, Israeli-Palestinian relations, virtue ethics, character formation, identity formation, and mythic reinvention. This book demonstrates that the stories of Thor, Daredevil, Sabra, Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, Thanos, Luke Cage, and others engage not just our imagination, but our theological imagination as well.

Gregory Stevenson is professor of New Testament at Rochester University.

1 What Did It Cost? Sacrifice and Kenosis in The Infinity Saga

Kristen Leigh Mitchell

2 “I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be”: The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones

Taylor J. Ott

3 Mythology, Mimesis, and Apocalypse in Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers

Matthew Brake

4 “Because You Exist”: Biblical Literature and Violence in the X-Men Comic Books

Dan W. Clanton, Jr.

5 The Gospel According to Thanos: Violence, Utopia, and the Case for a Material Theology

Tim Posada

6 “Those Are the Ancestors You Hear”: Marvel’s Luke Cage and Franz Rosenzweig’s Theology of the Creation

Levi Morrow

7 Spider-Man and the Theology of Weakness

Gregory Stevenson

8 Of Venom & Virtue: Venom as Insight into Issues of Identity, the Human Condition, and Virtue

Jeremy E. Scarbrough

9 Matt Murdock’s Ill-fitting Catholic Faith in Netflix’s Daredevil

Daniel D. Clark

10 Gods upon Gods: Hierarchies of Divinity in the Marvel Universe

Austin M. Freeman

11 The Thor Movies and the “Available” Myth: Mythic Reinvention in Marvel Movies

Andrew Tobolowsky

12 Thor: Ragnarok, Postcolonial Theology, and Life Together

Kevin Nye

13 Savage Monster or Grieving Mother? Sabra and Marvel’s Political Theology of Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine

Amanda Furiasse

14 Modern Re-enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity

Andrew D. Thrasher

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Co-Autor	Gregory Stevenson, Matthew William Brake, Dan W. Clanton Jr., Daniel D. Clark
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 217 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9787-0617-0 / 1978706170
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0617-0 / 9781978706170
Zustand	Neuware