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René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture provides a fresh and engaging introduction to and the application of René Girard's mimetic theory. From movies to social media, television to graphic novels, the contributors explore popular culture's theological depths and challenge readers to consider what culture reveals about them.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Mimesis, Mean Girls, and the Culture Creating Them: Tina Fey's Interrogation of Teen Comedy
Brian Bajek
Chapter 2: Star Wars: Between Myth and Gospel
Erik Buys
Chapter 3: Desire, the Scapegoated Other, and J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens
John C. McDowell
Chapter 4: Girard's Lasso of Truth: Wonder Woman and the Overcoming of Satan
Stephanie Perdew
Chapter 5: Those Who Have Eyes to See: The Divine Origins of the Modern Plot Twist
Jordan Almanzar
Chapter 6: Gazing into a Mirror: Watching Hoarders with Girard
Ryan G. Duns
Chapter 7: From the Hermeneutic of Violence to Redemption: The 100 and Mimetic Theory
Paolo Diego Bubbio
Chapter 8: Mercy, Honor, and Girardian Conversion in The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai
Ryan Smock
Chapter 9: The Pleasures and Perils of Revenge: Sons of Anarchy and Girard
George A. Dunn
Chapter 10: Exorcising Blame Through A Contract with God: A Girardian Analysis of Will Eisner's Graphic Novel
Daniel DeForest London
Chapter 11: Unmasking the Theological Shell: A Girardian Reading of Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars
Matthew Brake
Chapter 12: From Autonomy to Annihilation: The Monstrous Truth of the Romantic Lie
Robert Grant Price
Chapter 13: Subtweeting in the End Times: Social Media and the Escalation to Extremes
Justin Lee
Chapter 14: Starving for Beauty: On Anorexia and Mimetic Desire
Anna Scanlon
Chapter 15: From #MeToo to #WeToo: Mimetic Ecclesiology and the Possibility of Structural Reform
T. Derrick Witherington
About the author
Edited by Ryan G. Duns and T. Derrick Witherington - Contributions by Jordan Almanzar; Brian Bajzek; Matthew William Brake; Paolo Diego Bubbio; Erik Buys; George A. Dunn; Ryan G. Duns; Justin Lee; Daniel DeForest London; John C. McDowell; Stephanie Perdew
Summary
René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture provides a fresh and engaging introduction to and the application of René Girard’s mimetic theory. From movies to social media, television to graphic novels, the contributors explore popular culture’s theological depths and challenge readers to consider what culture reveals about them.
