Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind,
Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan
Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm,
Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain,
Ranen Omer-Sherman, Joshua Plencner, and Jeffrey L. Richey Comics
and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred
interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics
and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday
and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as
in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors
Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic character of
sacred narratives, imagining new vistas for both comics and
religious texts. In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic
narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the
sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical
inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between
religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability to
think about religious landscapes, rhetorical practices, pictorial
representation, and the everyday experiences of the uncanny.
Organized into four sections-Seeing the Sacred in Comics;
Reimagining Sacred Texts through Comics; Transfigured Comic Selves,
Monsters, and the Body; and The Everyday Sacred in Comics-the
essays explore comics and graphic novels ranging from Craig
Thompson's Habibi and Marvel's X-Men and Captain America to graphic
adaptions of religious texts such as 1 Samuel and the Gospel of
Mark. Sacred Texts and Comics shows how claims to the sacred are
nourished and concealed in comic narratives. Covering many
religions, not only Christianity and Judaism, this rare volume
contests the profane/sacred divide and establishes the import of
comics and graphic narratives in disclosing the presence of the
sacred in everyday human experience.
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