Fantastic Spiritualities : Monsters, Heroes and the Contemporary Religious Imagination.

In this work Jobling argues that religious sensibility in the Western world is in a process of transformation, but that we see here change, not decline, and that the production and consumption of the fantastic in popular culture offers an illuminating window onto spiritual trends and conditions. She...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jobling, J''annine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
Temas:
Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Spirituality in literature.
Spirituality.
Spirituality
Spiritualité dans la littérature.
Spiritualité.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Fantasy fiction
Spirituality in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In this work Jobling argues that religious sensibility in the Western world is in a process of transformation, but that we see here change, not decline, and that the production and consumption of the fantastic in popular culture offers an illuminating window onto spiritual trends and conditions. She examines four major examples of the fantastic genre: the Harry Potter series (Rowling), His Dark Materials (Pullman), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Whedon) and the Earthsea cycle (Le Guin), demonstrating that the spiritual universes of these four iconic examples of the fantastic are actually marked by.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (225 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
ISBN:9781472535290
1472535294

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