Horror and Religion: New literary approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality

by Eleanor Beal, Jonathan Greenaway, Eleanor Beal (Editor), Jonathan Greenaway (Editor)

Overview

Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in horror from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786834409
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Series:	Horror Studies
Edition description:	1
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	696,778
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eleanor Beal is lecturer in film and literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jonathan Greenaway is lecturer in film and literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1

1 'Headlong into an Immense Abyss'

Horror and Calvinism in Scotland and die United States Neil Syme 15

2 The Blood Is the Life

An Exploration of the Vampire's Jewish Shadow Mary Going 37

3 Decadent Horror Fiction and Fin-de-Siècle Neo-Thomism Zoë Lehmann Imfeld 57

4 'Let the Queer One in'

The Performance of the Holy, Innocent and Monstrous Body in Vampire Fiction Rachel Mann 77

5 More or Less Human, or Less is More Humane?

Monsters, Cyborgs and Technological (Ex)tensions of Edenic Bodies Scott Midson 97

6 Horror and the Death of God Simon Marsden 119

7 Aboriginal Ghosts, Sacred Cannibals and the Pagan Christ

Consuming the Past as Salvation in Wilson Harris's Jonestown Eleanor Beal 137

8 Reconfiguring Gothic Anti-Catholicism

Faith and Folk-Horror in the Work of Andrew Michael Hurley Jonathan Greenaway 159

9 'Deliver Us from Evil'

David Mitchell, Repetition and Redemption Andrew Tate 179

Bibliography 197

Index 215