The postmodern sacred : popular culture spirituality in the science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy genres /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Jefferson, NC :
McFarland & Company,
[2012]
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The return of the religious and the postmodern sacred
- The postmodern sacred
- Virtual religion: techniques of the postmodern sacred
- "Something up there": transcendental gesturing in new age-influenced texts
- Of gods and monsters: metaphor and the postmodern sacred
- Buffy and Xena: polytheisms on-screen
- Whither Leonardo Da Vinci? new age gnosticism
- Christ figures and the messianic in The lord of the rings
- The cultural logic of postmodern Christianity: the Christian right and popular culture
- The Islamic other and SFF responses to 9/11
- Good, evil and ethics: morality and all that stuff
- Conclusion: Is there an outside to capital?