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Article: The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Oropeza, B.J., ed. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. 295 pp. $32.95 (USD). ISBN: 0820474223.
[1] As Superman Returns hit movie theatres in the summer of 2006, debates arose in newspaper columns, entertainment shows, and Christian evangelical media channels about whether Superman should be understood as a Christ-like saviour figure. Superman, of course, originated as a comic book hero created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish Americans, in Action Comics #1 (1938), where he is described as the "champion of the oppressed" who was sent by his father to our planet in order to "devote his existence to helping those in need." On the cover of this first ...