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  • The Christian Countercult Movement

    by Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    Many seemingly strange questions on yoga, salvation, religious pluralism, and so forth have been actively debated among members of a small but influential group of evangelical apologists known as the Christian countercult movement. This Element explores the history of this movement from its origins in the anti-heresy writings of the early church to its modern development as a reaction to religious ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Forbidden Body

    Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination

    by Douglas E. Cowan ...
    From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed—or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • America's Dark Theologian

    The Religious Imagination of Stephen King

    by Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror storiesWho are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have given us alternative ways to address the fundamental quandaries of existence. Horror stories, in particular, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Theology and Horror

    Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination

    by John W. Morehead, Mark Richard Adams, Alyssa J. Beall, Amy Beddows, Wickham Clayton, Michael A. Hammett, Jack Hunter, Jessi Knippel, Joshua Wise, Karr? Shimabukuro0, Brandon R. Grafius2, Douglas E. Cowan3, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr.4, Steve A. Wiggins5 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought – questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous

    Of Gods and Monsters

    by Frank Chu, Timothy Grieve-Carlson, Heidi Ippolito, Whitney May, Leland Merritt, Wafi Momin, Eric D. Mortensen, Justin Mullis, Madah Richey, Stephan Sanchez, William Blake Smith0, Lee Weiss1, Joseph P. Laycock3, Brandon R. Grafius4, Natasha L. Mikles6, Douglas E. Cowan7 ...
    Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of “monster theory” within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary valleys of the Himalayas to ghost tours in Savannah, Georgia, the volume examines the variegated nature of the monstrous as well as the cultural functions of monsters in shaping how we see ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cults and New Religions

    A Brief History

    by Douglas E. Cowan, David G. Bromley ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
    This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group.A fully updated, revised and expanded edition of an unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Cyberhenge

    Modern Pagans on the Internet

    by Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes

    How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

    by Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Religion Online

    Finding Faith on the Internet

    Edited by Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Stories about Stories

    Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

    by Brian Attebery ...
    Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • God in the Movies

    by Andrew M. Greeley ...
    The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Deadpool and Philosophy

    My Common Sense Is Tingling

    Edited by Nicolas Michaud, Jacob Thomas May ...
    Series Book 107 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. A group of philosophical Deadpool fans delve into these puzzles in Deadpool and Philosophy. For instance, if you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero?Is Deadpool really Wade Wilson, or did Wilson have his ... Read more

    $14.39 USD