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9781602580183

Sacred Terror

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  • ISBN13:

    9781602580183

  • ISBN10:

    1602580189

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-01
  • Publisher: Baylor Univ Pr
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Summary

"Why do religious elements so often lurk at the heart of horror films? And why do they scare us so? In this book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: fear of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; and of the power - and powerlessness - of religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Douglas E. Cowan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Renison College, University of Waterloo.

Table of Contents

Tickets, please : an introduction to sacred terrorp. 1
Lying at the heart of horror : religion and horror on the silver screenp. 25
Angels to some, demons to others : fear of change in the sacred orderp. 61
No sanctuary : ambivalence and the fear of sacred placesp. 93
Stalking life : the fear of death and of dying badlyp. 123
Mainstreaming Satan : fear of supernatural evil internalized and externalizedp. 167
The unholy human : fear of fanaticism and fear of the fleshp. 201
Curtain and house lights : possibility persists in the world outside the framep. 249
Filmographyp. 265
Bibliographyp. 277
Indexp. 309
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