Download PDF by Douglas E. Cowan: Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen

By Douglas E. Cowan

Sacred Terror examines the spiritual components lurking in horror movies. It solutions an easy yet profound query: whilst there are such a lot of different frightening issues round, why is faith so frequently used to inform a frightening tale? during this lucid, provocative booklet, Douglas Cowan argues that horror motion pictures are opportune autos for externalizing the fears that lie within our non secular selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred locations; of a metamorphosis within the sacred order; of the supernatural long gone uncontrolled; of demise, demise badly, or no longer last lifeless; of fanaticism; and of the power-and the powerlessness-of religion.

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