The Forbidden Body : : Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination / / Douglas E. Cowan.
From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what cir...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Bodies Out of Place: Fearing Flesh in Three Movements
- 2. Crab Monsters and Giant Leeches: Exploitation and the Socially Approved Body
- 3. Altared Bodies: Sexuality, Sacrifice, and the Horrific Aesthetic
- 4. Sacred Flesh: Fetishizing the Forbidden Body
- 5. Skyclad: Sexualizing the Dangerous Other
- 6. Darkness Within: Encountering the Enigma
- 7. Darkness Without: Sex, Transcendence, and the Monstrous Body
- 8. Going Monstering: The End of the Beginning
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author