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This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors analyze everything from comic books and novels to television, movies, and theater as they portray yogis and their esoteric practices.
List of contents
Foreword
David Gordon White
Editor's Preface
Paul G. Hackett
Acknowledgements
Preliminary Notes
Part I: Theatre and Film
Introduction
Ken Derry
1. The Yogi, the Prince, and the Courtesan: Izéÿl in Europe and America
Samuel Thévoz
2. Supermen, Mystical Women, and Oriental Others: Dynamics of Race and Gender in Pop Cultural Yogis and the Universal Superhuman
Anya P. Foxen
3. From the Razor's Edge to the Scalpel's Blade: Larry Darrell, Doctor Strange, and the Trope of the Rehabilitated Western Man as Yogi
Paul G. Hackett
Part II: Television and Serials
Introduction
Jane Naomi Iwamura and Paul G. Hackett
4. "I'll See You Again in Twenty-Five Years:" Tibetan Buddhism in David Lynch's Twin Peaks and American Pop Culture in the 90s
Adam C. Krug
5. The Future is Not What it Used To Be: Religion, Yogic Power, and Tibet in Star Trek and Doctor Who
Paul G. Hackett
6. The Blank Scriptures of the Xiyou ji: Interpretive Flexibility and Religious Stability in Post-1949 Adaptations of The Journey to the West
Nathan Faries and Yuanfei Wang
Part III: Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Introduction
A. David Lewis
7. The Spiritual Superhero: A Historical Overview of Tantra in Comics
Albion M. Butters
8. The Implied Spider-Man: Transcreating Religious Imagery and Meaning in Spider-Man: India
Rex Barnes
9. The Dark Knight of the Soul: Death as Initiatory Ordeal in Grant Morrison's Batman R.I.P.
Joel Bordeaux
Afterword
Paul G. Hackett
About the author
Edited by Paul G. Hackett - Foreword by David Gordon White - Contributions by Rex Barnes; Joel Bordeaux; Albion M. Butters; Ken Derry; Nathan Faries; Anya P. Foxen; Paul G. Hackett; Jane Naomi Iwamura; Adam C. Krug; A. David Lewis; Samuel Thévoz and Yuanf
