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ISBN 10: 0415925886

ISBN 13: 978-0415925884

Author: Timothy K. Beal

Religion’s great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante’s Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and ItsMonsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Religion and Its Monsters    
1. Chaos Gods 
Fragments from the Ancient Near East    
To Order and Back    
Chaos Mother    
The Cloudrider and the Warrior Goddess    
No Rest    
2. The Bible and Horror  
Biblical Monsters and Mad Professors    
Water Play or Water Fight    
Disorientation and Theological Horror    
Monstrous Enemies    
Conjuring    
3. The Sleep of Wisdom   
Job and the Abyss of Suffering    
Absence of All Refuge    
Desiring Chaos    
Lyricism of Terror    
4. From the Whirlwind
Rousing God Rousing Leviathan    
Diapered Monster    
Behold Behemoth    
Drawing Out Leviathan    
Wholly Other    
Divine Abyss    
5. Dinner and a Show
Watching and Eating Monsters in Rabbinic Tradition    
Seafaring Tales of the Rabbis    
Fresh, Frozen or Salt-cured    
Is This Monster Kosher?    
Jonah’s Undersea Adventure    
6. To the Devil   
Apocalypse    
It’s the Edge of the World as We Know It    
Diabolical Dragon    
The Monster-maker’s Bible’s Bible    
From Beowulf to Dracula to Harry Potter    
Part 2: Monsters and Their Religion    
7. New Monsters in Old Skins   
Modern Chaos Battles    
Hobbes’ Mortall God    
Theophany    
But Why Leviathan?    
Awe and Order    
Hellraiser    
8. Other Gods  
Orientalism and Its Monsters    
The Witch’s Monkeys    
Rama’s Monkeys    
Horrid Chambers of Imagery    
Diabolical Monsters    
Sublime Monsters    
Disoriental Monsters    
9. The Blood Is the Life  
Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula    
The Count’s Religion    
Laws Pertaining to Blood    
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood    
Rituals of Resacralization    
Transfusion    
One Wedding and a Funeral    
Last Battle    
10. Screening Monsters 
Movie Time, Sacred Time    
Monstrous Revelations (Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire)    
Stage Rite (Dracula)    
Exorcism (Metropolis)    
11. Ecomonster  
I Am Become Death    
Ecohorror on Screen    
Demythologizing the Monster    
Shooting the Monster    
These Are Ourselves    
12. Our Monsters, Ourselves 
Island of the Misfit Boys    
Bela’s Hideous Progeny    
Cthulhu Mythos    
Lovecraft’s Hideous Progeny    
From Scholars to the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu    
Homesickness    
Conclusion

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