ABSTRACT
Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante's Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part One|76 pages
Religion and Its Monsters
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Chaos Gods
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
The Bible and Horror
chapter Chapter 3|12 pages
The Sleep of Wisdom
chapter Chapter 4|10 pages
From the Whirlwind
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
Dinner and a Show
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
To the Devil
part Two|110 pages
Monsters and Their Religion