Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition: Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion
Part One: Religion and Its Monsters
1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East
2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World
3. The Sleep of Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering
4. From the Whirlwind: Where God Outmonsters Job
5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the Rabbis
6. To the Devil: John’s Great Red Dragon
Part Two: Monsters and Their Religion
7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order
8. Other Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters
9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula
10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time
11. Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed
12. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture
13. Gods, Monsters, and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene
Conclusion: Here Be Monsters.
Notes
Index
Biography
Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, and Washington Post and is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible and When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.
