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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: Looking for God in the Gutter
Douglas Rushkoff (Creator, Testament...

Biographie:
A. David Lewis is a national lecturer in Comics Studies, an award-winning graphic novelist, and a PhD candidate in Religion and Literature at Boston University. Christine Hoff Kraemer holds a PhD in Religion and Literature from Boston University and is Department Chair of Nature, Deity, and Inspiration at Cherry Hill Seminary, South Carolina....

Sommaire:
The New School)
Introduction
Christine Hoff Kraemer (Cherry Hill Seminary) and A. David Lewis (Boston University), editors

NEW INTERPRETATIONS

The Devil's Reading: Revenge and Revelation in American Comics
Aaron Ricker Parks (McGill University)
London (& the Mind) as Sacred-Desecrated Place in Alan Moore's From Hell
Emily Taylor Merriman (San Francisco State University)
Drawing Contracts: Will Eisner's Legacy
Laurence Roth (Susquehanna University)
Catholic American Citizenship: Prescriptions for Children from Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact (1946-1963)
Anne Blankenship (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Gold Plates, Inked Pages: The Authority of the Graphic Novel
G. St. John Stott (Arab American University, Jenin)
Comics and Religion: Theoretical Connections
Darby Orcutt (North Carolina State University)
Killing the Graven God: Visual Representations of the Divine in Comics
Andrew Tripp (Boston University)
Echoes of Eternity: Hindu Reincarnation Motifs in Superhero Comic Books
Saurav Mohapatra (Creator, India Authentic)
The Christianizing of Animism in Manga and Anime: American Translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind
Eriko Ogihara-Schuck (Dortmund University of Technology)

RESPONSE & REBELLION

On Preacher (Or, the Death of God in Pictures)
Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury
Superman Graveside: Superhero Salvation beyond Jesus
A. David Lewis (Creator, The Lone and Level Sands)
The Apocalypse of Adolescence: Use of the Bildungsroman and Superheroic Tropes in Mark Millar & Peter Gross's Chosen
Julia Round (Bournemouth University)
From God Nose to God's Bosom, Or How God (and Jack Jackson) Began Underground Comics
Clay Kinchen Smith (Santa Fe College)
A Hesitant Embrace: Comic Books and Evangelicals
Kate Netzler (Independent Scholar)
Narrative and Pictorial Dualism in Persepolis and the Emergence of Complexity
Kerr Houston, (Maryland Institute College of Art)

POSTMODERN RELIGIOSITY

Machina Ex Deus: Perennialism in Comics
G. Willow Wilson (Creator, Cairo)
Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles
Megan Goodwin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Magic Circus of the Mind: Alan Moore's Promethea and the Transformation of Consciousness through Comics
Christine Hoff Kraemer (Cherry Hill Seminary) and J. Lawton Winslade (DePaul University)
Religion and Artesia / Religion in Artesia
Mark Smylie (Creator, Artesia)
Present Gods, Absent Believers in Sandman
Emily Ronald (Boston University)
Tell Tale Visions: The Erotic Theology of Craig Thompson's Blankets
Steve Jungkeit (Yale University)
Selected Bibliography
Appendices