Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels

Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels

Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels.

In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material-in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts-occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
Country USA
Brand Continuum
Manufacturer Continuum
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 9780826430267
IsAdultProduct
Height 9
Length 5.999988
Weight 1.3007273458
Width 0.78
ReleaseDate 2010-10-21
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Continuum
Manufacturer	Continuum
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780826430267
IsAdultProduct
Height	9
Length	5.999988
Weight	1.3007273458
Width	0.78
ReleaseDate	2010-10-21
NumberOfItems	1

Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels

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