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Article: Religion and its Monsters.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Beal, Timothy K. New York: Routledge, 2003. 235 pp., $21.95 (USD). ISBN 0-415-92588-6 (paper).
[1] With the publication of Religion and its Monsters, Timothy Beal has brought together worlds that rarely come into contact: the worlds of religious studies, biblical studies, theology, and the sometimes sublime and often diabolic, but always awful (that is, full of awe) and horrifying, world of monsters. Beal's book is a highly insightful and very readable study on horror and religion. Like Beal, I am fascinated by the intricately connected worlds of horror and religion, and I have written on horror cinema and theology. It is an interest I experience in isolation ...