John W. Morehead

791.4502/32092

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Trade Paperback

0786472901

9780786472901

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0.5 in

9 in

11.9 Oz

6 in

PN1992.4.W49J68 2013

2013-029188

English

240 Pages

1 vol.

Joss Whedon and Religion : Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred

2013

Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

"This volume compiles essays from various authors with various religious backgrounds on religious themes in the work Joss Whedon, a self-described 'angry athesist'"-- Reference & Research Book News ., "this volume compiles essays from various authors with various religious backgrounds on religious themes in the work Joss Whedon, a self-described 'angry athesist'"-- Reference & Research Book News ., "this volume compiles essays from various authors with various religious backgrounds on religious themes in the work Joss Whedon, a self-described 'angry athesist'"- Reference & Research Book News .

Atheism, Television / General, General, Philosophy

Religion, Performing Arts

An anthology of essays on the religious themes in and implications of the works of Joss Whedon, creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and more recently writer and director of the box-office hit Marvel's The Avengers. The book addresses such topics as ethics, racism, feminism, politics, spiritual transformation, witchcraft, identity, community, heroism, apocalypse, and other religiously and theologically significant themes of Whedon's creative enterprises., This is a collection of new essays on the religious themes in, and the implications of, the works of Joss Whedon, creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel , and Firefly , and more recently writer and director of the box-office hit Marvel's The Avengers . The book addresses such topics as ethics, racism, feminism, politics, witchcraft, spiritual transformation, identity, community, heroism, apocalypse, and other theologically significant themes of Whedon's creative enterprises. The disciplinary approaches vary as well; history, theology, philosophy of religion, phenom-enology, cultural studies, and religious studies are all employed. The various essay authors differ in that some are clearly believers in God, some are clearly not, and others leave that matter aside., This is a collection of new essays on the religious themes in, and the implications of, the works of Joss Whedon, creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel , and Firefly , and more recently writer and director of the box-office hit Marvel's The Avengers . The book addresses such topics as ethics, racism, feminism, politics, witchcraft, spiritual transformation, identity, community, heroism, apocalypse, and other theologically significant themes of Whedon's creative enterprises. The disciplinary approaches vary as well; history, theology, philosophy of religion, phenom­enology, cultural studies, and religious studies are all employed. The various essay authors differ in that some are clearly believers in God, some are clearly not, and others leave that matter aside.

Table of Contents Foreword--K. Dale Koontz Preface--Anthony R. Mills Introduction--Anthony R. Mills Varieties of Conversion: Spiritual Transformation in the Buffyverse--Jeremy R. Ricketts The Harrowing of Hell: "Anne" and the Greek Paschal Tradition in Conversation--Hope K. Bartel and Timothy E. G. Bartel Mary and Buffy Walk into a Bar: The Virgin Deity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Valerie Mayhew "Oh ... My ... Goddess": Witchcraft, Magick and Thealogy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Jason Lawton Winslade Apocalypse Now and Again: The Apocalyptic Paradigm and the Meaning of Life and (Un)Death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Roslyn Weaver Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? Racial Identity and the Irrationality of Religious Belief in Firey and Serenity--Desirée de Jesus "You're welcome on my boat, God ain't": Ethical Foundations in the Whedonverse--Dean A. Kowalski Actives, Affectivity and the Soul: Interpreting Dollhouse through the Phenomenology of Michel Henry--J. Leavitt Pearl Just to Love and Be Loved in Return: Identity and Love in the Dollhouse--Julie Clawson "There's no place I can be": Whedon, Augustine and the Earthly City--Susanne E. Foster and James B. South To Assemble or to Shrug? Power, Responsibility and SacriFice in Marvel's The Avengers--Russell W. Dalton National Treasures: Joss Whedon's Assembling of Exceptional Avengers--John C. McDowell As It Ever Was ... So Shall It Never Be: Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory and Violence in The Cabin in the Woods--J. Ryan Parker "I'm sorry I ... ended the world": Eschatology, Nihilism and Hope in The Cabin in the Woods--W. Scott Poole About the Contributors Index

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