Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Maia Kotrosits
EAN: 9781137365002
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3501 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-10-15
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GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Popular culture, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Christianity, New Testaments, Theology
Author Maia Kotrosits: Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion, queer studies, and women's studies at Denison University, USA. Author Hal Taussig: Hal Taussig holds professorial rank at both the Recontructionist Rabbinical College and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA. His 13 books include A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts; In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity; Re-Reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma (with Maia Kotrosits); and Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table (with Dennis Smith).
