| Description |
1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Endorsements -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition: Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion -- PART I: Religion and Its Monsters -- 1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East -- 2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World -- 3. The Sleep of Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering -- 4. From the Whirlwind: Where God Outmonsters Job -- 5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the Rabbis |
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6. To the Devil: John's Great Red Dragon -- PART II: Monsters and Their Religion -- 7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order -- 8. Other Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters -- 9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula -- 10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time -- 11. Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed -- 12. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture -- 13. Gods, Monsters and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene -- Conclusion: Here Be Monsters -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000786095 |
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1000786099 |
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