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Religion, Theology, and Stranger Things

Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Religion, Theology and Stranger Things: Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope brings interdisciplinary analysis to the teeming spiritual side of the hit television series. With chapters from social scientists, historians, theologians, and Biblical scholars, the volume addresses the many different theological, religious, and supernatural themes present in the fictional world of Hawkins, Indiana. From spiritualism to secularism, Mormon gender norms to monsters of abnormality, rock & roll to Dungeons & Dragons, an international list of scholars come together to argue that imaginative realms like the one created by the Duffer brothers can serve to showcase and to scrutinize the common impulses and needs of our culture and ourselves. To venture into the darkness of the Upside Down is to venture into the depths of human experience. This volume explores the shadows and suggests a few paths back into the light.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt534 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTheology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Antal sidor260
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978715721

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Introduction, Andrew J. Byers, Adam PowellPart I: Spirits, Monsters, and Supernatural ScienceChapter 1: Comfort, Control, and Christmas Lights: The Types and Techniques of Spirit Communication in Stranger Things, Season One, Adam PowellChapter 2: The Myth of Stranger Things: A Structural Analysis of Monsters and Fears in Season One, Vivian AsimosChapter 3: Defining the Normal: Monstrosity in Stranger Things, Brandon GrafiusChapter 4: Enchanted Science? The Supernatural Imagination of Stranger Things, Josh ReevesPart II: History, (Pop) Culture, and Nostalgic ContextsChapter 5: Who Is Suzie Bingham? Gender and the 1980s Mormon Family in Stranger Things, Jana ReissChapter 6: “Do Not Be Overcome by Evil”: Dungeons, Dragons, and the Satanic Panic in Stranger Things , Joseph P. LaycockChapter 7: Fighting Satan with the Devil’s Music? Subverting Suspicions of Demonic Influence on Rock ‘n’ Roll in Stranger Things Season 4, John Anthony DunneChapter 8: Home, Nostalgia, and Stranger Things, Andrew RootChapter 9: Utopia, Intertextuality, and Liturgy: Nostalgia and Religion in Stranger Things, Melissa ConroyPart III: Theology, Ethics and Biblical ThemesChapter 10: “Peeking Behind Bauman’s Curtain”: A Theology and Ethics of Institutions in Stranger Things, Nathaniel A. Warne AdishianChapter 11: Max and the Magdalene: On Violence, Grief, and Trauma Under Patriarchy, Siobhán JolleyChapter 12: From Patmos to Hawkins: Slipping through Time and Space in Revelation and Stranger Things, Heather MacumberChapter 13: Can Anything Good Come out of Hawkins? Self, Place, Evil, and Salvation in John’s Gospel, Stranger Things, and the Secular Age, Andrew J. ByersAfterword: What Would Suzy, Erica, and Steve Say? Concluding Reflections, Andrew J. Byers, Adam Powell

Modern cultures and society frequently consider theology and religion as if they belong to a long-gone nostalgia of another world, yet—as the essays which Byers and Powell have compiled show—the universe of Stranger Things draws freely from the wells found in that other world. Stranger Things provides a rich and fertile ground to explore these themes. Through a wide-ranging series of essays and reflections, Religion, Theology and Stranger Things does a wonderful job of translating and working through both the “Upside Down” of Stranger Things in Hawkins, Indiana into the “Right Side Up” of our own world. It is an excellent volume thinking through the religion and theology of such a popular series which has sparked widespread cultural nostalgia for the 1980s. May this volume do the same for reflections on our theology and religion.