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American Comics

Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. This superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife.

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  • ""A. David Lewis argues that the supergero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating multiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife" --Back cover."
  • "Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. This superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife."@en
  • "The six elements of the superhero afterlife subgenre -- The comic book medium's glimpse of eternity -- Complexities of character in Fantastic Four: Hereafter -- Planetary, Promethea, and the multiplicity of selfhood."
  • "Just as often as superheroes journey into the afterlife, they also return from it. Their surprising immortality has created its own set of storytelling rules and expectations; it also has come to influence their secular readership in new interreligious investigations of narrative character and personal selfhood. Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. A. David Lewis argues that the superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"

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  • "American Comics"@en
  • "American comics, literary theory, and religion the superhero afterlife"@en
  • "American comics, literary theory, and religion the superhero afterlife"
  • "American comics, literary theory, and religion : the superhero afterlife"@en
  • "American comics, literary theory, and religion : the superhero afterlife"

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