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The Forbidden Body - Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Forbidden Body - Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what
happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come
together Throughout history, religion has attempted to control
nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean;
what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how
they may be displayed—or, more commonly, how they must be hidden.
Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left,
or been forced out of, their “proper” place. The Forbidden Body
examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark
spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious
belief and tales of terror. Taking a broad approach not limited to
horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary
horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and
participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of
bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made
visible and reinforced through popular horror tropes. The volume
challenges the reader to move beyond preconceived notions of
religion in order to decipher the “religious imagination” at
play in the scary stories we tell over and over again. Cowan argues
that stories of religious bodies “out of place” are so
compelling because they force us to consider questions that
religious belief cannot comfortably answer: Who are we? Where do we
come from? Why do we suffer? And above all, do we matter? As
illuminating as it is unsettling, The Forbidden Body offers a
fascinating look at how and why we imagine bodies in all the wrong
places.
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