{"id":81609,"date":"2020-09-19T05:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=81609"},"modified":"2020-09-15T21:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:45:56","slug":"cfp-religion-and-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2020\/09\/cfp-religion-and-horror.html","title":{"rendered":"#CFP Religion and Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">While many genres offer the potential for theological reflection and exploration of religious issues, the nature of horror provides unique ways to wrestle with these questions. Since the EC Comics of the 1950s, horror comics have performed theological work in ways that are sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, but frequently surprising and provocative. This volume will bring together essays covering the history of horror comics, with a focus on their engagement with religious and theological issues.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Essays have been accepted on the topics of the morality of the EC Comics, the liminality of John Constantine, cosmic indifference in the work of Junji Ito, and the reincarnated demons of the web-comic \u201cThe Devil is a Handsome Man.\u201d We are seeking essays on a wide range of other topics, possibly including but not necessarily limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Moore\u2019s\u00a0<em>Swamp Thing<\/em>\u00a0and Post-Humanist Theology<\/li>\n<li>Religious Pluralism and\u00a0<em>The Sandman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lucifer in the\u00a0<em>Sandman<\/em>\u00a0Universe<\/li>\n<li>The Theological Universe of\u00a0<em>Gideon\u2019s Fall<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Function of Islam in\u00a0<em>Infidels<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Folk Religious Practices and\u00a0<em>Harrow County<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Human and the Divine in\u00a0<em>Chu<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Horror as a Theological Turn in Superhero Comics (particularly how\u00a0<em>Batman<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Daredevil\u00a0<\/em>use horror)<\/li>\n<li>Cain and Abel in\u00a0<em>House of Secrets\/House of Mystery<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Joker\u2019s Theology<\/li>\n<li>Seeking the Divine in\u00a0<em>Werewolf by Night<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Unseen Realities of\u00a0<em>Outcast<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Concepts of Hell and damnation in\u00a0<em>Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Spawn<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">As there has already been a large amount of scholarship on\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, we will not include any essays on it in this volume.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">This volume is a part of the Religion and Comics series, published by Claremont Press. It will be co-edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead. Grafius is associate professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, whose recent books include\u00a0<em>Reading the Bible with Horror<\/em>\u00a0(Lexington Books\/Fortress Academic) and a handbook on the film\u00a0<em>The Witch<\/em>\u00a0in the Devil\u2019s Advocates Series (Auteur Publishing\/Liverpool University Press). Morehead is the proprietor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">TheoFantastique.com<\/a>, and is a contributor, editor and co-editor to a number of books including\u00a0<em>The Undead and Theology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Joss Whedon and Religion<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Fantastic Fan Cultures and the Sacred<\/em>.\u00a0Together, they have co-edited the volume\u00a0<em>Theology and Horror<\/em>\u00a0(Lexington Books, forthcoming), and the\u00a0<em>Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters<\/em>\u00a0(forthcoming, 2023).<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Abstracts of 300-500 words with CVs should be sent to\u00a0johnwmorehead@msn.com and\u00a0bgrafius@etseminary.edu\u00a0by December 1, 2020. The submission deadline for drafts of manuscripts of 6,000-8,000 words is scheduled for June 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/2020\/09\/12\/call-for-submissions-religion-and-horror-comics\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Morehead\u2019s blog Theofantastique<\/a>. Also reposted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/popularcultureandtheology.com\/2020\/09\/12\/call-for-papers-religion-and-horror-comics\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theology and Popular Culture blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many genres offer the potential for theological reflection and exploration of religious issues, the nature of horror provides unique ways to wrestle with these questions. 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