This volume explores the complex relationship between vampires and theology across time and media, bringing together established and emerging scholars to showcase how vampires help us think about the divine and our place within theological systems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction, Madeline Potter
Chapter 1: Contesting Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction, Alison Milbank
Chapter 2: 'Bless Me Lord, For I am Going to Sin:' Vampire Priests, the Role of Blood, Religion and Gothic Heresy, Jonathan Greenaway
Chapter 3: Indian Vampires: Religion, Esotericism, Responses in English and Bengali Literature, Shaona Barik
Chapter 4: What We [Actually] Do in the Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the Lens of Kostova's The Historian, David K. Goodin
Chapter 5: Japanese Vampires for Christ: Vampire Media as Religious Invasion Narrative in Japan, Justin Mullis
Chapter 6: In the Beginning, God Created Lilith: Vampiric Ontology, Gender and Lilith in True Blood and She Never Died, Mary Going
Chapter 7: The Inoperative Bite: Aoi Tori, Vampire Narratives, and the Absence of Evil, Leo Chu
Chapter 8: "We are on a Mission from God." - Alucard, Theology, Monsters, and Monstrosity in Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012), Marthe-Siobhá n Hecke
Chapter 9: Vampire Priests and "Cult Messiahs" in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, Curtis Runstedler
Chapter 10: Bloody Scriptures: The Vampire's Place within the Bible of the Folk Tradition, Kari Sawden
Chapter 11: Horizontal Vampirism, Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara's The Addiction, Gavin F. Hurley
Chapter 12: Blade and the Spiritual Problem of Evil, Peter Morgan and Terance Espinoza
