Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordPeter DendleIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Survival and Loss at the End of the World“She is saved now; I have washed her of all her sins”: Coping with Death, Grief and Cults in The ReturnedStella Marie GaynorWhat Waits Beyond: Nihilistic Approaches to Religion and Life After Death in Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell TrilogyMark Richard AdamsFrom Brainwashing to Brain Eating: Conversion as ZombificationGeorge J. SiegZombie Optimism: Hope in a World Beyond the ApocalypseScout TafoyaPart II: Undead Capitalism, Undead Planet“I hear echoes of the voice of God”: Capitalist Theology as Driver of and Response to iZombie’s Zombie OutbreakErin GianniniThe American Spectacular: Hollywood Economics and the Intersection of 3D, the Religious Epic and ZombiesRon RiekkiA Psalm of Ice and Fire: How Religion Saved and Doomed the World on Game of ThronesJacopo della QuerciaTheological and Ecological Apocalypse in Jorge Grau’s No Profanar el Sueño de los MuertosFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart III: The Christian/Judaic Apocalypse and the Zombie“I thought God had something a little different in mind”: Hershel Greene as Man of Faith and Doubt in the Face of the ApocalypseJohn W. MoreheadThe First Earth Passed Away, the Word Was Made Flesh: The Zombie Apocalypse as Christian Faith Made ManifestJames T. McCrea“Repent, the end is extremely fucking nigh”: Religion and Its Absence in the Zombie ApocalypseSarah ClearyPart IV: The Biblical UndeadBlessed Are the ­Brain-Eaters: “World Inheritance” in The Girl with All the Gifts and the BeatitudesCharlotte ThomasRepresentations of the Eschaton and Dispensational Apologetics of the Undead: World War Z Through the Lens of the Apotelesmatic PrismPhil FitzsimmonsLet My (Dead) People Go: Land of the Dead as Exodus and Remnant NarrativeKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Part V: Faith of the Zombie“Able Zombies”: Subverting Biblical Tradition in The Girl with All the Gifts and Raising Stony MayhallIldikó LimpárIf We Could Just Talk to the Creature: The Cognizant Zombie in TV FictionSharon ColecloughWhat Would Zombie Jesus Do? In the Flesh and Undead SaviorsNikki Foster-Kruczek and Catherine PughAbout the ContributorsIndex

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordPeter DendleIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Survival and Loss at the End of the World“She is saved now; I have washed her of all her sins”: Coping with Death, Grief and Cults in The ReturnedStella Marie GaynorWhat Waits Beyond: Nihilistic Approaches to Religion and Life After Death in Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell TrilogyMark Richard AdamsFrom Brainwashing to Brain Eating: Conversion as ZombificationGeorge J. SiegZombie Optimism: Hope in a World Beyond the ApocalypseScout TafoyaPart II: Undead Capitalism, Undead Planet“I hear echoes of the voice of God”: Capitalist Theology as Driver of and Response to iZombie’s Zombie OutbreakErin GianniniThe American Spectacular: Hollywood Economics and the Intersection of 3D, the Religious Epic and ZombiesRon RiekkiA Psalm of Ice and Fire: How Religion Saved and Doomed the World on Game of ThronesJacopo della QuerciaTheological and Ecological Apocalypse in Jorge Grau’s No Profanar el Sueño de los MuertosFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart III: The Christian/Judaic Apocalypse and the Zombie“I thought God had something a little different in mind”: Hershel Greene as Man of Faith and Doubt in the Face of the ApocalypseJohn W. MoreheadThe First Earth Passed Away, the Word Was Made Flesh: The Zombie Apocalypse as Christian Faith Made ManifestJames T. McCrea“Repent, the end is extremely fucking nigh”: Religion and Its Absence in the Zombie ApocalypseSarah ClearyPart IV: The Biblical UndeadBlessed Are the ­Brain-Eaters: “World Inheritance” in The Girl with All the Gifts and the BeatitudesCharlotte ThomasRepresentations of the Eschaton and Dispensational Apologetics of the Undead: World War Z Through the Lens of the Apotelesmatic PrismPhil FitzsimmonsLet My (Dead) People Go: Land of the Dead as Exodus and Remnant NarrativeKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Part V: Faith of the Zombie“Able Zombies”: Subverting Biblical Tradition in The Girl with All the Gifts and Raising Stony MayhallIldikó LimpárIf We Could Just Talk to the Creature: The Cognizant Zombie in TV FictionSharon ColecloughWhat Would Zombie Jesus Do? In the Flesh and Undead SaviorsNikki Foster-Kruczek and Catherine PughAbout the ContributorsIndex

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordPeter DendleIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Survival and Loss at the End of the World“She is saved now; I have washed her of all her sins”: Coping with Death, Grief and Cults in The ReturnedStella Marie GaynorWhat Waits Beyond: Nihilistic Approaches to Religion and Life After Death in Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell TrilogyMark Richard AdamsFrom Brainwashing to Brain Eating: Conversion as ZombificationGeorge J. SiegZombie Optimism: Hope in a World Beyond the ApocalypseScout TafoyaPart II: Undead Capitalism, Undead Planet“I hear echoes of the voice of God”: Capitalist Theology as Driver of and Response to iZombie’s Zombie OutbreakErin GianniniThe American Spectacular: Hollywood Economics and the Intersection of 3D, the Religious Epic and ZombiesRon RiekkiA Psalm of Ice and Fire: How Religion Saved and Doomed the World on Game of ThronesJacopo della QuerciaTheological and Ecological Apocalypse in Jorge Grau’s No Profanar el Sueño de los MuertosFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart III: The Christian/Judaic Apocalypse and the Zombie“I thought God had something a little different in mind”: Hershel Greene as Man of Faith and Doubt in the Face of the ApocalypseJohn W. MoreheadThe First Earth Passed Away, the Word Was Made Flesh: The Zombie Apocalypse as Christian Faith Made ManifestJames T. McCrea“Repent, the end is extremely fucking nigh”: Religion and Its Absence in the Zombie ApocalypseSarah ClearyPart IV: The Biblical UndeadBlessed Are the ­Brain-Eaters: “World Inheritance” in The Girl with All the Gifts and the BeatitudesCharlotte ThomasRepresentations of the Eschaton and Dispensational Apologetics of the Undead: World War Z Through the Lens of the Apotelesmatic PrismPhil FitzsimmonsLet My (Dead) People Go: Land of the Dead as Exodus and Remnant NarrativeKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Part V: Faith of the Zombie“Able Zombies”: Subverting Biblical Tradition in The Girl with All the Gifts and Raising Stony MayhallIldikó LimpárIf We Could Just Talk to the Creature: The Cognizant Zombie in TV FictionSharon ColecloughWhat Would Zombie Jesus Do? In the Flesh and Undead SaviorsNikki Foster-Kruczek and Catherine PughAbout the ContributorsIndex