Kees de Groot: Comics, Culture, and Religion

Cover: 9781350321625 | Comics, Culture, and Religion | Faith Imagined | Kees de Groot | Buch

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Beschreibung

Offers a systematic overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology, including examples from across the globe.

Über den Autor

Kees de Groot is the KSGV Professor of Sociology of Worldviews and Public Mental Health at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research is on religion in liquid modernity and has covered Catholicism, spiritual care, religion in the public domain, theater, events, and Tintin. His latest monograph in the English language is The Liquidation of the Church (2018).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Comics and Religion in Liquid Modernity, Kees de Groot (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Part I: Comics in Religion
1. From Subordinates to Superheroes? Comics in Christian Magazines for Children and Youth in Norway, Irene Trysnes (University of Agder, Norway)
2. Cancelling the Second Coming: Manufactured Christian Outrage Online, Evelina Lundmark (Uppsala University, Sweden)
3. The Reception of Comics on Zoroastrianism, Paulina Niechcial (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Part II: Religion in comics
4. Drawn into Krishna: Autobiography and Lived Religion in the Comics of Kaisa and Christoffer Leka, Andreas Häger and Ralf Kauranen (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
5. What Would Preacher Do? Tactics of Blasphemy in the Strategies of Satire and Parody, Michael J. Prince (University of Agder, Noway)
6. Islam and Anxieties of Liberalism in Craig Thompson's Habibi, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Reed College, USA)
Part III: Comics as Religion?
7. Implicit Religion and Trauma Narratives in Maus and Watchmen, Ilaria Biano (Istituto Italiano, Italy)
8. Manga Pilgrimages: Visualizing the Sacred / Sacralizing the Visual in Japanese Junrei, Mark MacWilliams (St. Lawrence University, USA)
9. Comics and Meaning Making: Adult Comic Book Readers on What, Why and How They Read, Sofia Sjö (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Part IV: Learning From Comics
9. The Magic of the Multiverse. Easter Eggs, Superhuman Beings and Metamodernism in Marvel's Story Worlds, Sissel Undheim (University of Bergen, Norway)
10. Comics and Religious Studies: Amar Chitra Katha as an Educational Comic Series, Line Reichelt Føreland (University of Agder, Norway)
11. A Contract with God or a Social Contract? Christophe Monnot (University of Strasbourg, France)
Conclusion: Comics as a Way of Doing, Encountering, and Making Religion, Kees de Groot (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781350321625
ISBN-10:	1350321621
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Groot, Kees de
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Kees de Groot
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.05.2025
Gewicht:	0,406 kg