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OverviewThemes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns. This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon BaconPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9781476680538ISBN 10: 1476680531 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 05 April 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Peter Dendle Introduction Simon Bacon Part I: Survival and Loss at the End of the World “She is saved now; I have washed her of all her sins”: Coping with Death, Grief and Cults in The Returned Stella Marie Gaynor What Waits Beyond: Nihilistic Approaches to Religion and Life After Death in Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell Trilogy Mark Richard Adams From Brainwashing to Brain Eating: Conversion as Zombification George J. Sieg Zombie Optimism: Hope in a World Beyond the Apocalypse Scout Tafoya Part II: Undead Capitalism, Undead Planet “I hear echoes of the voice of God”: Capitalist Theology as Driver of and Response to iZombie’s Zombie Outbreak Erin Giannini The American Spectacular: Hollywood Economics and the Intersection of 3D, the Religious Epic and Zombies Ron Riekki A Psalm of Ice and Fire: How Religion Saved and Doomed the World on Game of Thrones Jacopo della Quercia Theological and Ecological Apocalypse in Jorge Grau’s No Profanar el Sueño de los Muertos Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part III: The Christian/Judaic Apocalypse and the Zombie “I thought God had something a little different in mind”: Hershel Greene as Man of Faith and Doubt in the Face of the Apocalypse John W. Morehead The First Earth Passed Away, the Word Was Made Flesh: The Zombie Apocalypse as Christian Faith Made Manifest James T. McCrea “Repent, the end is extremely fucking nigh”: Religion and Its Absence in the Zombie Apocalypse Sarah Cleary Part IV: The Biblical Undead Blessed Are the Brain-Eaters: “World Inheritance” in The Girl with All the Gifts and the Beatitudes Charlotte Thomas Representations of the Eschaton and Dispensational Apologetics of the Undead: World War Z Through the Lens of the Apotelesmatic Prism Phil Fitzsimmons Let My (Dead) People Go: Land of the Dead as Exodus and Remnant Narrative Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Part V: Faith of the Zombie “Able Zombies”: Subverting Biblical Tradition in The Girl with All the Gifts and Raising Stony Mayhall Ildikó Limpár If We Could Just Talk to the Creature: The Cognizant Zombie in TV Fiction Sharon Coleclough What Would Zombie Jesus Do? In the Flesh and Undead Saviors Nikki Foster-Kruczek and Catherine Pugh About the Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSimon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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