Skip to main content alibris logo

Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen

by

Write The First Customer Review
Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen - Cowan, Douglas E
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of ...

loading
Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen 2016, Baylor University Press, Waco

ISBN-13: 9781481304900

Trade paperback

Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen 2008, Baylor University Press, Waco

ISBN-13: 9781602580183

Hardcover