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9780567030474

Fantastic Spiritualities Monsters, Heroes and the Contemporary Religious Imagination

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    9780567030474

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    0567030474

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-09-02
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

Examining four major examples of the fantastic genre: the Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Earthsea cycle (Le Guin), this book presents an argument that the production and consumption of the fantastic in po

Author Biography

J'annine Jobling is Associate Professor, Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Introduction. Fantasy and Spiritualityp. 1
Transforming Selves. Harry Potter: 'A highly unusual boy'p. 22
Transforming Selves. Earthsea: 'The Eaten One'p. 45
Metaphysics and Transcendence. His Dark Materials: 'The Republic of Heaven'p. 63
Metaphysics and Transcendence. Earthsea: 'Only in silence the word'p. 84
Tranforming Worlds. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'Bite me'p. 103
Transforming Worlds. Harry Potter: 'Toujours Pur'p. 128
The Good and the Monstrous. His Dark Materials: '...and ye shall be as gods'p. 147
The Good and the Monstrous. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'From beneath you, it devours'p. 168
Conclusion. Shadows of the Divinep. 189
Bibliographyp. 203
Indexp. 213
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