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  • America's Dark Theologian

    The Religious Imagination of Stephen King

    de Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror storiesWho are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have given us alternative ways to address the fundamental quandaries of existence. Horror stories, in particular, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Theology and Horror

    Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination

    de John W. Morehead, Mark Richard Adams, Alyssa J. Beall, Amy Beddows, Wickham Clayton, Michael A. Hammett, Jack Hunter, Jessi Knippel, Joshua Wise, Karr? Shimabukuro0, Brandon R. Grafius2, Douglas E. Cowan3, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr.4, Steve A. Wiggins5 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought – questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous

    Of Gods and Monsters

    de Frank Chu, Timothy Grieve-Carlson, Heidi Ippolito, Whitney May, Leland Merritt, Wafi Momin, Eric D. Mortensen, Justin Mullis, Madah Richey, Stephan Sanchez, William Blake Smith0, Lee Weiss1, Joseph P. Laycock3, Brandon R. Grafius4, Natasha L. Mikles6, Douglas E. Cowan7 ...
    Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of “monster theory” within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary valleys of the Himalayas to ghost tours in Savannah, Georgia, the volume examines the variegated nature of the monstrous as well as the cultural functions of monsters in shaping how we see ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Forbidden Body

    Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination

    de Douglas E. Cowan ...
    From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed—or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Cults and New Religions

    A Brief History

    de Douglas E. Cowan, David G. Bromley ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
    This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group.A fully updated, revised and expanded edition of an unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious ... Leer más

    $27.00 USD

  • The Christian Countercult Movement

    de Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    Many seemingly strange questions on yoga, salvation, religious pluralism, and so forth have been actively debated among members of a small but influential group of evangelical apologists known as the Christian countercult movement. This Element explores the history of this movement from its origins in the anti-heresy writings of the early church to its modern development as a reaction to religious ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • War, Media, and Propaganda

    A Global Perspective

    de Ben H. Bagdikian, Naiim Badii, Nicolene Botha, Naren Chitty, David J. Collison, Geoffrey Cowan, Arnold de Beer, Mahboub E. Hashem, Zhou He0, Dana Hull1, Karim H. Karim2, Ronald Paul Larson3, David Miller4, Asra Q. Nomani5, Leila Conners Petersen6, Nancy Snow7, Norman Solomon9, Majid Tehranian0, Daya Kishan Thussu1, Kathleen A. Tobin2, R S. Zaharna3, Barrie Zwicker4, Lee Artz5, Douglas Kellner6, Antonio C. La Pastina7, Danny Schechter8, Herman Wasserman9 ...
    This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Cyberhenge

    Modern Pagans on the Internet

    de Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes

    How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

    de Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Religion Online

    Finding Faith on the Internet

    Edición de Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Stories about Stories

    Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

    de Brian Attebery ...
    Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • God in the Movies

    de Andrew M. Greeley ...
    The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD