Marveling Religion - Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.

List of contents

Preface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue
Daniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin
Technology, Violence, and Sacrifice
Chapter One: "I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark's Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love
George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl
Chapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther
Matthew Brake
Chapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
Ken Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J. Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill
Power, Worth, and Society
Chapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok
Rhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold
Chapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor
Adam Barkman and Bennett Soenen
Chapter Six: "Who Are You?":René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Panther
Ryan Smock
Chapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust Political Theology
Andrew T. Vink
Chapter Eight: Mysterio as Antichrist in SpiderMan: Far From Home
George Tsakiridis
Deconstructing Norms, Imagining the New
Chapter Nine: Science and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Deconstructing the Boundary between Science, Technology, and Religion
Lisa Stenmark
Chapter Ten: Religion, Science, and the Marvel Universe: Re-Imagining Human-Earth Relations
Whitney Bauman and Imran Khan
Chapter Eleven: "Open Your Eye": Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Trauma Resolution
Jennifer Baldwin
Forming Identity
Chapter Twelve: Marvelling at Captain Danvers, Or What is So Super About Our Heroes: Contesting the Identity Politics of Self-Other
John C. McDowell
Chapter Thirteen: The Super Muslim and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A Complicated Trajectory of Fantasy and Agency
Dilyana Mincheva
Chapter Fourteen: Bad Girls Turned Superwomen: A Critical Appraisal of the MCU Archetype for Superheroines
Will Abney

About the author

Edited by Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge - Contributions by Will Abney; Jennifer Baldwin; Adam Barkman; Whitney Bauman; Matthew William Brake; George A. Dunn; Jason T. Eberl; Rhiannon Grant; Jo Henderson-Merrygold; Daniel White Hodge; Imran Khan;

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer White Hodge Baldwin
• Assisted by: Jennifer Baldwin (Editor), Baldwin Jennifer (Editor), Daniel White Hodge (Editor), White Hodge Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781793621405
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-140-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Technology: general issues