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- Ahmed, Maaheen, et al.
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‘We’re all Avengers now’ : Community-building, civil religion and nominal multiculturalism in Marvel Comics’ Fear Itself
- 2016
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In: European Journal of American Culture. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1466-0407 .- 1758-9118. ; 35:2, s. 77-95
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses Marvel Comics’ 2011 crossover ‘event’ ‘Fear Itself’. It suggests that the event argues for national unity in a time of crisis by mobilizing America’s self-definition as a multicultural nation as well as civil religion. The article discusses ‘Fear Itself’s’ attempted construction of national myth through looking at the way it represents the media, US multiculturalism (in a generalized form that nominally includes non-white groups while frequently failing to account for them) and ‘sacralized’ civil religious aspects of US history. Especially salient in this connection is the event’s engagement with the Roosevelt years. In doing so, it is argued, ‘Fear Itself’ presents an Americanness that relies on an idealized and nostalgic notion of the so-called ‘Greatest Generation’, a tightly knit, self-sacrificing civil society that supposedly came into being during that period.
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Cross-sections : Historical Perspectives from Malmö University
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The anthology Cross-Sections: Historical Perspective from Malmö University contains contributions from researchers sharing historical perspectives, but representing different disciplines, such as arts, ethnography, history, literature studies, religion and sports science. The seventeen contributions clearly demonstrate the breadth and diversity of historical research carried out in different departments at Malmö University.
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- Earle, Harriet E. H., et al.
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Introduction
- 2023
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In: Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics. - Abingdon & New York : Routledge. - 9781032480879 - 9781003386841 ; , s. 1-15
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Comics are not fruits; they are more akin to vegetables. ‘Fruit' has a clear definition in botany. It is an ‘edible product of a plant or tree, consisting of the seed and its envelope'. Among the most commonly cited definitions of comics, as far as Anglophone comics studies are concerned, is the one proposed by the comics creator and theorist Scott McCloud in the mid-1990s. Decades before the late 1890s, when many date the ‘birth' of US American comics, sequential art from all over the world influenced the cultural landscape. Rather, there are many research questions that remain unprobed when it relates to these areas and their comics traditions. Comics are neither inherently revolutionary or regressive, liberating or oppressive. There can be no doubt that Anglophone comics studies is lopsided in its overall perspective. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
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- Glaser, Joakim, et al.
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Introduction
- 2022
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In: Cross-Sections : Historical Perspectives from Malmö University. - Malmö : Malmö universitet. - 9789178772513 - 9789178772520 ; , s. 9-15
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Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- his book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.The volume brings together texts across a wide range of genres, styles and geographic locations including the Netherlands, Latin America, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Ireland, the Czech Republic, among others. These works have remained out of reach for speakers of languages other than the original and do not receive the scholarly attention they deserve due to their lack of English translations. This book highlights the richness and diversity these works add to the corpus of comic art and comic studies that Anglophone comics scholars can access to broaden the collective perspective of the field and forge links across regions, genres and comic traditions.Part of the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series, this volume spans many continents and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and students of comics studies, literature, cultural studies, popular culture, art and design, illustration, history, film studies and sociology.
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- Lund, Martin, 1984-
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A Higher Authority : Evangelical Challenges to "Religion and Climate Change"
- 2024
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The topic of climate change is neither settled nor one-sided. To those who accept it, the best scientific evidence overwhelmingly attests that anthropogenic climate change is real. But there are many who reject that evidence and dismiss any claim about ongoing climate change as not only untrue, but as a great evil. In the mounting scholarly and popular calls to understand the “religious dimensions” of climate change, it’s nearly axiomatic that religion “has a part to play” in shaping responses to climate change. But as in other areas, there’s often an apologetic suggestion that hegemonic patterns – e.g., acceptance of anthropogenic climate change and commitment to counter it – are self-evidently tied to “traditional” religious values, while opposition to such patterns or denial of climate change is “cultural,” “political,” or otherwise somehow not really religious. That is, the (explicit or implicit) focus of much of this writing is more on what the public responses from groups and leaders some of us call religious ought to be than what they are.Whatever the science might say, the social importance of anthropogenic climate change isn’t determined by its observable effects but by political contestation. Or, as Colin Hay has noted, “crises are constituted in and through narrative.” Different climate change narratives can serve different socially formative interests. Starting from this constructivist position, this paper discusses evangelical Protestant examples from Chick Publications, RaptureReady.com, and Resisting the Green Dragon, showing how contemporary climate change discourse itself is positioned as a Satanic or anti-Christian crisis, narrated as part of a battle between good and evil, and is ultimately part of larger, long-term concerns about evangelical power and social reproduction. Having raised some problems with assuming that climate change can be understood as a universal truth and that it is, in and of itself, self-evidently a crisis, the paper concludes with a discussion about ways of framing what is primed to be a long-running scholarly engagement with “religion and climate change,” arguing that before we ask what so-called religious actors’ responses to climate change are, we should first understand how they respond to the claim that climate change is happening and is a crisis to begin with.
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