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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination328 pages
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.
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147...
At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke352 pages
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Transylvanian Heritage: A Draculan Philosophy58 pages
Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/124589...
The Mc Neil Century: The Life And Times Of An Island Prison331 pages
Publisher:Nelson-Hall, Chicago, ©1984
Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/968631...
The Glass Centipede, Retold from the Original Sources284 pages
Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/562660835
The Sanctuary469 pages
Summary:"A wealthy socialite who leads a double life as a mill foreman, and the mill owner's daughter who does social work." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/5466353
Dr. Traprock's Memory Book or, Aged in the Wood210 pages
Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/182695...
Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume One: Photographs: 1980-2020240 pages
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/164...
Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus104 pages
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...
The Collected Writings of Francis E Dec Esquire104 pages
Source - https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Writ...
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age143 pages
Publisher : St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood
In 1962, the young Eugene Rose (the future Fr. Seraphim) undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of material he compiled for this work, only the present essay has come down to us in completed form. Here Fr. Seraphim reveals the core of all modern thought and life—the belief that all truth is relative—and shows how this belief has been translated into action in our century. Today, four decades after he wrote it, this essay is more timely than ever. It clearly explains why contemporary ideas, values, and attitudes—the “spirit of the age”—are shifting so rapidly in the direction of moral anarchy, as the philosophy of Nihilism enters more deeply into the fiber of society. Nietszche was right when he predicted that the 20th century would usher in “the triumph of Nihilism.”
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
The Otherworld in Myth, Folklore, Cinema, and Brain Science255 pages
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 1st edition
This volume explores a dimension of reality usually scoffed at by rational-thinking individuals living in modern industrialized societies, but still experienced by these same individuals when they are in a stage of sleep known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep; this is the stage in which vivid and bizarre dreams are a persons living reality. While in this stage, we believe what we experience is real, but then deny its reality upon awakening as we go about our daily routines. Yet, in many cases, a dream with vivid imagery and bizarre goings on is communicating with the dreamer in an archaic language directly associated with an Otherworld reality. This reality exists within us and expresses concepts and ideas about our realm of existence that pertain to our waking lives, as well as to an alternate, archaic life with its own language and ideas transcending physical reality. By studying various myths and folk tales, along with cinematic portrayals of otherworldly experiences, commentary from modern individuals, and reports from traditional shamans who are experts at traversing the Otherworld reality, this text discerns the features and characteristics of this supernatural realm. Contemporary research into the Otherworld marks this realm as corresponding to the unconscious substratum of the human psyche, what C.G. Jung referred to as the collective unconscious. Certain scientists have found evidence of its connection with various aspects of brain functioning, suggesting that the brain in many ways encourages a belief in the Otherworld. However, it would be a mistake to call the Otherworld a figment of the human imagination, since this realm seems to have a type of physical existence. The book considers the Otherworld to exist and provides reasons why rational-thinking individuals are hesitant to accept its existence even when their brains are telling them: the Otherworld is real, and you have just experienced it.
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152...
Please open a new request - this one is getting very long.Thanks.
Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System301 pages
Source - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
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Source - https://www.worldcat.org/title/3124338