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Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.
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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
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Jennifer Baldwin is director of Grounding Flight Wellness Center, Woodstock, Georgia. Her primary area of scholarship is the intersection of traumatology and systematic theology. Daniel White Hodge is associate professor of intercultural communication and chair of the communication arts department at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois.Jennifer Baldwin is director of Grounding Flight Wellness Center, Woodstock, Georgia. Her primary area of scholarship is the intersection of traumatology and systematic theology. Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy at Redeemer University. Matthew Brake (M.Div., Regent University) is the series editor for the Theology and Pop Culture series and runs the Popular Culture and Theology blog.Janis Nuckolls is professor of anthropological linguistics at Brigham Young UniversityJo Henderson-Merrygold is a theological educator based in the UK and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies from the University of Sheffield.Daniel White Hodge is associate professor of intercultural communication and chair of the communication arts department at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois.Ryan G. Duns is a Jesuit priest and assistant professor of theology at Marquette University.George Tsakiridis is senior lecturer of philosophy and religion at the School of American and Global Studies, South Dakota State University.
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Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.
