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Fantastic Spiritualities - Monsters, Heroes and the Contemporary Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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Fantastic Spiritualities - Monsters, Heroes and the Contemporary Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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In this work, Jobling argues that religious sensibility in the
Western world is in a process of transformation, but that we see
here change, not decline, and that the production and consumption
of the fantastic in popular culture offers an illuminating window
onto spiritual trends and conditions. She examines four major
examples of the fantastic genre: the "Harry Potter" series
(Rowling), "His Dark Materials" (Pullman), "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer" (Whedon) and the "Earthsea cycle" (Le Guin), demonstrating
that the spiritual universes of these four iconic examples of the
fantastic are actually marked by profoundly modernistic
assumptions, raising the question of just how contemporary
spiritualities (often deemed postmodern) navigate philosophically
the waters of truth, morality, authority, selfhood and the divine.
Jobling tackles what she sees as a misplaced disregard for the
significance of the fantasy genre as a worthy object for academic
investigation by offering a full-length, thematic, comparative and
cross-disciplinary study of the four case-studies proposed, chosen
because of their significance to the field and because these books
have all been posited as exemplars of a 'postmodern' religious
sensibility. This work shows how attentiveness to spiritual themes
in cultural icons can offer the student of theology and religions
insight into the framing of the moral and religious imagination in
the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and how this can
prompt traditional religions to reflect on whether their own
narratives are culturally framed in a way resonating with the
'signs of the times'.
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