Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous - Of Gods and Monsters

Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous explores the intersection of monster theory and religious studies. Within these chapters lurk a gamut of strange and demonic creatures from the Bronze Age to contemporary popular culture, illuminating how monsters reflect cultural ways of seeing the world and exist in surplus of named categories.

List of contents

Table of Contents
PART I: Thinking with Monsters
Chapter 1: Five Further Theses on Monster Theory and Religious Studies
Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock
Chapter 2: Re-Iterations: On Tellings, Variants, and Why Monsters Always Come Back
Doug Cowan
Chapter 3: Horror and Bible (Six Theses)
Brandon R. Grafius
Chapter 4: A Biological Model of Monster Flaps
Blake Smith
PART II: Monsters Guarding the Gates
Chapter 5: The Idea of Evil and Messianic Deliverance in the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition of South Asia
Wafi Momin
Chapter 6: Ghost stories from Tales of Retribution: Understanding elements of Seventeenth-century Japanese Ghost Stories
Frank Chu
Chapter 7: Of Monsters and Invisible Villages: Nags myi rgod Tales of the Tibetans of Gyalthang
Eric D. Mortensen
Chapter 8: Godly Aromas and Monstrous Stenches: An Analysis of Buddhist New Year Fumigation Rituals in an Indo-Himalayan Borderland
Rohit Singh
Chapter 9: Man, Yeti, And Mi-go: The Transgressive History of A Monstrous Word
Lee Weiss
Chapter 10: Mesopotamian Demon Lamashtu and the Monstrosity of Gender Transgression
Madadh Richey
Chapter 11: Topophilic Perversions: Spectral Blackface and Fetishizing Sites of Monstrosity in American Dark Tourism
Whitney May
PART III: Monsters Tearing Down the Gates
Chapter 12: Finding Bigfoot: The Anthropological Machine and the Generation of Monsters
Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Chapter 13: Thomas Jefferson: The First Cryptozoologist?
Justin Mullis
Chapter 14: Shapeshifters and Goddesses: Monstrosity and Otherness in the Mysticism of Gloria Anzaldüa
Stefan Sanchez
Chapter 15: The Monsters Within: Rape and Revenge in Genesis 34
Leland Merritt
Chapter 16: Monsters Among Us: The Cathartic Carnage of American Horror Story
Heidi Ippolito
Chapter 17: To Eat or To Be Eaten--CHEW: A New study Between the Beast and the Sovereign
Elena Pasquini

About the author

Edited by Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock - Contributions by Frank Chu; Douglas E. Cowan; Brandon R. Grafius; Timothy Grieve-Carlson; Heidi Ippolito; Joseph P. Laycock; Whitney May; Natasha L. Mikles; Leland Merritt; Wafi Momin; Eric D. Mortensen;

Product details

• Authors: Natasha L Mikles, Natasha L. Mikles, Natasha L. Laycock Mikles
• Assisted by: Joseph P Laycock (Editor), Joseph P. Laycock (Editor), Natasha L. Mikles (Editor), Natasha L Mikles (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793640260
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-026-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Ancient, Christianity, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art