{"product_id":"marveling-religion-critical-discourses-religion-and-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-9781793621382","title":"Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume that explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse. The focus of the shared inquiry are various films comprising the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and corresponding Netflix series. The contributors explore various religious themes and how they intersect with culture through the canon on the MCU. The first part focuses on responses to the societal, governmental, and cultural context that solidified with clarity during the 2016 Presidential Election cycle in the United States and in the following administration. Additionally, it provides lenses and resources for engaging in productive public actions. Part two explores cultural resources of sustaining activism and resistance as well as some of the key issues at stake in public action. The third part centers on militarization and resistance to state violence. Taken in concert, these three sections work together to provide frames for understanding while also keeping us engaged in the concrete action to mobilize social change. The overarching aim of the volume is to promote critical discourse regarding the dynamics of activism and political resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology, Violence, and Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: “I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark’s Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Brake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKen Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J. Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower, Worth, and Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Barkman and Bennett Soenen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: “Who Are You?”:René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Panther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Smock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust Political Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew T. Vink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Mysterio as Antichrist in SpiderMan: Far From Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Tsakiridis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeconstructing Norms, Imagining the New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Science and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Deconstructing the Boundary between Science, Technology, and Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Stenmark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Religion, Science, and the Marvel Universe: Re-Imagining Human-Earth Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitney Bauman and Imran Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: “Open Your Eye”: Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Trauma Resolution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForming Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Marvelling at Captain Danvers, Or What is So Super About Our Heroes: Contesting the Identity Politics of Self-Other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn C. McDowell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: The Super Muslim and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A Complicated Trajectory of Fantasy and Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDilyana Mincheva\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fourteen: Bad Girls Turned Superwomen: A Critical Appraisal of the MCU Archetype for Superheroines \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Abney\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042645180759,"sku":"9781793621382","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793621382.jpg?v=1750954991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marveling-religion-critical-discourses-religion-and-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-9781793621382","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}