ABSTRACT

Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.
Specific biblical texts are examined in the light of cultural criticism and areas of popular culture including pornography, heavy metal music and McDonald's hamburgers in the light of biblical criticism.

part |12 pages

Introduction

chapter |20 pages

Queer Heroes

chapter |20 pages

Cows with Guns 1 :

Sadistic hegemony, Hitchcock and biblical dismemberment

chapter |18 pages

Night Sprinkle(s) 1

Pornography and the Song of Songs

chapter |16 pages

Stolen Water is Sweeter, Stolen Bread Tastes Better

On representing sex workers

chapter |20 pages

Pawing through Garbage

On the dialectics of dystopia in Lamentations and the Strugatsky brothers

chapter |20 pages

Graves of Craving

Fast food, or, manna and McDonald's