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The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom
Author | : Carole M. Cusack |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1476636400 |
To the casual observer, similarities between fan communities and religious believers are difficult to find. Religion is traditional, institutional, and serious; whereas fandom is contemporary, individualistic, and fun. Can the robes of nuns and priests be compared to cosplay outfits of Jedi Knights and anime characters? Can travelling to fan conventions be understood as pilgrimages to the shrines of saints? These new essays investigate fan activities connected to books, film, and online games, such as Harry Potter-themed weddings, using The Hobbit as a sacred text, and taking on heroic roles in World of Warcraft. Young Muslim women cosplayers are brought into conversation with Chaos magicians who use pop culture tropes and characters. A range of canonical texts, such as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sherlock--are examined in terms of the pleasure and enchantment of repeated viewing. Popular culture is revealed to be a fertile source of religious and spiritual creativity in the contemporary world.
The Sacred and the Profane
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780156792011 |
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
The Enduring Fantastic
Author | : Anna Höglund |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476642788 |
Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.
MYTH, SYMBOL, AND RITUAL: ELUCIDATORY PATHS TO THE FANTASTIC UNREALITY
Author | : MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA |
Publisher | : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 6061610378 |
The present volume insists on the policies derived from the social ideas generated by myths, the updating of myths as an arsenal of social pedagogy, on the ethnic condition of the relevance of myths, but also on the resumption by mass media of the pejorative sense of the myth. This volume is part of the scientific series “Mythology and Folklore”.
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
Author | : Andrew Graham-Dixon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393082938 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.
Confessions Of A Heretic
Author | : Adam Nergal Darski |
Publisher | : Jawbone Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781908279750 |
"Rebellion is a part of youth. Sometimes it's dangerous. Instead of a sword, I hold a guitar in my hands. I'm in the same, rigid world but instead of Molotov cocktails, I've got a computer. It's a much more powerful weapon." Confessions Of A Heretic is the forthright and erudite memoir of the front man and driving force behind the Polish heavy-metal group Behemoth, currently at the top of their game following the release of their 2014 US Top 40 album The Satanist. Presented as a series of interrogations by friends and associates, the book reveals a complex man of great contrast--a health-conscious, highly personable intellectual known for his extreme views and even more extreme music--lifting the lid on everything from his clashes with the Polish Catholic church to appearing as a judge on the Polish edition of The Voice to his recent battle with leukemia.
The Holy Profane
Author | : Teresa L. Reed |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780813127934 |
Sacred and Profane Love
Author | : Arnold Bennett |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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