Publikacja (red. Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) dostępna jest w Open Access

Z radością informujemy o publikacji w otwartym dostępie tomu Comics, Culture, and Religion. Faith Imagined (red. Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, The Netherlands), w którym publikuje m.in. dr Paulina Niechciał. Zachęcamy do lektury!

Comics, Culture, and Religion. Faith Imagined offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion?

Content:

1 Comics and Religion in Liquid Modernity (Kees de Groot);

2 From Subordinates to Superheroes? Comics in Christian Magazines for Children and Youth in Norway (Irene Trysnes);

3 Cancelling the Second Coming: Manufactured Christian Outrage Online (Evelina Lundmark);

4 The Reception of Comics on Zoroastrianism (Paulina Niechciał)

5 Drawn into Krishna: Autobiography and Lived Religion in the Comics of Kaisa and Christoffer Leka (Andreas Hager and Ralf Kauranen);

6 What Would Preacher Do? Tactics of Blasphemy in the Strategies of Satire and Parody (Michael J. Prince);

7 Islam and Anxieties of Liberalism in Craig Thompson’s Habibi (Kambiz GhaneaBassir);

8 Implicit Religion and Trauma Narratives in Maus and Watchmen (Ilaria Biano);

9 Manga Pilgrimages: Visualizing the Sacred/Sacralizing the Visual in Japanese Junrei (Mark MacWilliams);

10 Comics and Meaning Making: Adult Comic Book Readers on What, Why, and How They Read (Sofia Sjø);

11 The Magic of the Multiverse: Easter Eggs, Superhuman Beings, and Metamodernism in Marvel’s Story Worlds (Sissel Undheim);

12 Comics and Religious Studies: Amar Chitra Katha as an Educational Comic Series (Line Reichelt Foreland);

13 A Contract with God or a Social Contract? (Christophe Monnot);

14 Comics as a Way of Doing, Encountering, and Making Religion (Kees de Groot)

Praise:

"… entertaining edited volume … reveals the extent to which popular cultural art forms dominate late modernity" (Carole Cusack, University of Sidney)

"… outstanding academic significance… reveals not only the use of comics by religions and the appropriation of religions in the popular culture of comics, but also the reading and production of comic as practices of lived religion” (Takahashi Norihoto, Tokyo University)

"… will move readers to understand religion and comics in more expansive and exciting ways. Finally we have a book that speaks powerfully about religion and comics as culturally intertwined in ways that highlight what religion does with comics and, perhaps more significantly, what comics do with and for religion" (Ken Koltum-Fromm, Havercord College, USA)

Hardback: approximately €63,50 with discount code.

E-book (open access): Comics, Culture, and Religion: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/comics-culture-and-religion-9781350321588/

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Faculty for Humanities and Education and the University Library at the University of Agder, Norway.

Działania służące przygotowaniu publikacji dr Pauliny Niechciał były finansowane ze środków ID.UJ Wydziału Filozoficznego.