Marveling Religion

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Edited by Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge - Contributions by Will Abney; Jennifer Baldwin; Adam Barkman; Whitney Bauman; Matthew William Brake; George A. Dunn; Jason T. Eberl; Rhiannon Grant; Jo Henderson-Merrygold; Daniel White Hodge; Imran Khan;

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Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.

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Preface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue

Daniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin

Technology, Violence, and Sacrifice

Chapter One: "I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark's Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love

George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl

Chapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther

Matthew Brake

Chapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion

Ken Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J. Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill

Power, Worth, and Society

Chapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok

Rhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold

Chapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor

Adam Barkman and Bennett Soenen

Chapter Six: "Who Are You?":René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Panther

Ryan Smock

Chapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust Political Theology

Andrew T. Vink

Chapter Eight: Mysterio as Antichrist in SpiderMan: Far From Home

George Tsakiridis

Deconstructing Norms, Imagining the New

Chapter Nine: Science and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Deconstructing the Boundary between Science, Technology, and Religion

Lisa Stenmark

Chapter Ten: Religion, Science, and the Marvel Universe: Re-Imagining Human-Earth Relations

Whitney Bauman and Imran Khan

Chapter Eleven: "Open Your Eye": Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Trauma Resolution

Jennifer Baldwin

Forming Identity

Chapter Twelve: Marvelling at Captain Danvers, Or What is So Super About Our Heroes: Contesting the Identity Politics of Self-Other

John C. McDowell

Chapter Thirteen: The Super Muslim and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A Complicated Trajectory of Fantasy and Agency

Dilyana Mincheva

Chapter Fourteen: Bad Girls Turned Superwomen: A Critical Appraisal of the MCU Archetype for Superheroines

Will Abney