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Theology and Game of Thrones

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Theology and Game of Thrones explores themes of religion, institutional norms, and power, Christian ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, religious pluralism and representation, and theology's relationship with sexual violence and death in the HBO television series and the original A Song of Ice and Fire novels.


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Introduction: Sex, Violence, and Theology in the World of Ice and Fire Matthew Brake
Part I: Power and Sacred Institutions in the Seven Kingdoms
1. Seasons Change and "Winter is Coming": Patterning in Game of Thrones and the Hebrew Bible Eric X. Jarrard
2. Targaryen Exceptionalism and Politics in the Sacred Structures of Westeros
Mollie Gossage and Edgar Valles
3. Guest Rights and Gods: Historical Hospitium in Game of Thrones Katy Krieger
Part II: Ecclesiology of Thrones
4. What is Dead May Never Die: The Drowned God and Jesus' Call to Discipleship
Shaun C. Brown
5. Ragamuffins Bound by the Word: The Ecclesiology of the Night's Watch Drew McIntyre
Part III: Augustine Goes to Westeros
6. Night Kings and Shadow Assassins: Reflections on Death, Evil, and Privation Mark Wiebe
7. The Faith of the Seven and Faith in the Trinity David Mahfood
Part IV: Dispatches from Essos: Pluralism and Orientalism in the World of Ice and Fire
8. Is Hinduism Present in Game of Thrones? Jeffery D. Long
9. "To reach the west you must go east": The Empty Shadow of Postsecular Orientalism in A Song of Ice and Fire Justin KH Tse
10. Comparative Worldview Studies and A Song of Ice and Fire: World Religions, Comparison, and Fictional Worlds Nathan Frederickson
Part V: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors: Sexual Violence, Death, and the Real in Game of Thrones
11. Concupiscence, Coercion, and the Communion of Persons: Reading the Rape of Cersei
Susan Johnston
12. Valar Morghulis: Late-Modern Imaginaries of Death and Nihilism in Game of Thrones
Andrew D. Thrasher
13. Hodor: The Transubstantiation of the word Made Death, The Theological Real in Game of Thrones Loraine Haywood


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Edited by Matthew William Brake - Contributions by Matthew William Brake; Shaun C. Brown; Nathan Fredrickson; Mollie Gossage; Loraine Haywood; Eric X. Jarrard; Susan Johnston; Katy Krieger; Jeffery D. Long; David Mahfood; Drew McIntyre; Andrew D. Thrasher

Summary

Theology and Game of Thrones explores themes of religion, institutional norms, and power, Christian ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, religious pluralism and representation, and theology’s relationship with sexual violence and death in the HBO television series and the original A Song of Ice and Fire novels.

Product details

Authors Matthew Brake, Matthew William Brake
Assisted by Matthew Brake (Editor), Matthew William Brake (Editor)
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2021
 
EAN 9781978707627
ISBN 978-1-978707-62-7
No. of pages 342
Series Theology and Pop Culture
Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works

Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, RELIGION / Theology, Theology

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