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Graven Images - Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Paperback)
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Graven Images - Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Paperback)
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This title explores the roles of religion in comic books and
graphic novels. Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for
serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative
religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and
new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary
tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique
fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to
offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the
public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans'
fraught but passionate relationship with religion, "Graven Images"
explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and
graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, "Graven
Images" observes the frequency with which religious material - in
devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts - occurs in
both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the
unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages;
analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious
messages contained in comics books in appropriate cultural, social,
and historical frameworks; and, articulate the significance of the
innovative theologies being developed in comics.
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