Theology and Vampires

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
9781978716896 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the complex relationship between vampires and theology across time and media, bringing together established and emerging scholars to showcase how vampires help us think about the divine and our place within theological systems.

What can vampires teach us about God? How can they reshape the way we think about religion, and our relationship with the divine? Through a thorough analysis of the relationship between theology and vampires, Theology and Vampires provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry. Contributions to the volume assess vampires and their role in articulating theological thought, bringing together some of the classical vampire tales of the 19th century, with contemporary iterations of the figure. Considering how vampires are used to ask theological questions across media, from literature through to video games, this volume paints a complex and comprehensive picture of the often overlooked manner in which vampires not only reflect but also actively shape theological modes of enquiry.

Madeline Potter is Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the Long 19th Century (Romanticism to Victorianism) at University of Edinburgh.

Introduction, Madeline Potter
Chapter 1: Contesting Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction, Alison Milbank
Chapter 2: ‘Bless Me Lord, For I am Going to Sin:’ Vampire Priests, the Role of Blood, Religion and Gothic Heresy, Jonathan Greenaway
Chapter 3: Indian Vampires: Religion, Esotericism, Responses in English and Bengali Literature, Shaona Barik
Chapter 4: What We [Actually] Do in the Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the Lens of Kostova’s The Historian, David K. Goodin
Chapter 5: Japanese Vampires for Christ: Vampire Media as Religious Invasion Narrative in Japan, Justin Mullis
Chapter 6: In the Beginning, God Created Lilith: Vampiric Ontology, Gender and Lilith in True Blood and She Never Died, Mary Going
Chapter 7: The Inoperative Bite: Aoi Tori, Vampire Narratives, and the Absence of Evil, Leo Chu
Chapter 8: “We are on a Mission from God.” – Alucard, Theology, Monsters, and Monstrosity in Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012), Marthe-Siobhán Hecke
Chapter 9: Vampire Priests and “Cult Messiahs” in Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot, Curtis Runstedler
Chapter 10: Bloody Scriptures: The Vampire’s Place within the Bible of the Folk Tradition, Kari Sawden
Chapter 11: Horizontal Vampirism, Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin’s Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, Gavin F. Hurley
Chapter 12: Blade and the Spiritual Problem of Evil, Peter Morgan and Terance Espinoza

Erscheinungsdatum	18.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Co-Autor	Shaona Barik, Leo Chu, Terance Espinoza, Mary Going
Zusatzinfo	3 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781978716896 / 9781978716896
Zustand	Neuware