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Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic book origins. While there are volumes analyzing Batman through literary, philosophical, and psychological lenses, this volume is one of the first academic monographs to examine Batman through a theological and religious lens. Theology and Batman analyzes Batman and his world, specifically exploring the themes of theodicy and evil, ethics and morality, justice and vengeance, and the Divine Nature. Scholars will appreciate the breadth of material covered while Batman fans will appreciate the love for the character expressed through each chapter.
Contents
Introduction: Batman as a Focus of Theological Inquiry
C.K. Robertson, Ph.D., and Matthew Brake
Section One: Theodicy and Evil
1. The Karmic Tragedy of Bruce Wayne: Batman as Anti-Buddha
Wesley D. Cray
2. Suffering and Evil in the Book of Job and Batman: The Killing Joke
Francesco Del Bianco
3. Evil After Christianity: Joker (2019) as Post-Christian Theodicy
Katherine Kelaidis
4. Beginning with Wickedness, or the Long Dark Knight of the Polis' Soul
John C. McDowell
5. Batman Encounters Judaism and the Holocaust
Rafael Medoff
Section Two: Ethics and Morality
6. "Fear of Faith" and Faith over Fear: Scarecrow as Emblem of a Purgatorial Gotham
Christina M. Knopf
7. Pride Goeth Before the Knightfall: Sabbath as Heroic Practice
Drew McIntyre
8. Batman Forever: Morality and Narrative in Grant Morrison's Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Andrew Kuzma
9. The Bat-Bodhisattva: A Buddhist reading of our favorite (Anti)Hero
John Thompson
10. Batman's Cardinal Virtues in Dark Knight Returns
Joseph Turner
Section Three: Justice and Vengeance
11. Reflections on Revolutionary Gotham: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Theological Fantasy in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy
Ryan Haecker
12. No Saviors in Gotham: Black Liberation and Whiteness in Batman: The Cult
Peter Herman
13. Vengeance, Justice, and Batman's War on Crime
Randall M. Jensen
14. False Messiah and Real Devils: Batman and Girard on the Fate of Gotham Mimesis and the Messianic
Clint Jones
15. Fighting for Righteousness: Batman's Atonement
Joshua Wise
Section Four: Deities and the Divine
16. Morality, Epistemology, and How Batman Can Know That God Exists
Batman: Atheist?
Armond Boudreaux
17. How One Becomes What One Is: The Nietzschean Polytheology of Joker (2019)
Vernon W. Cisney
18. Dark Knight of the Soul: Reading Batman with Apophatic Theology
Stephen Garner
19. The Dark Knight and the Dark Side of God
Michael D. Nichols
20. God-Confusion in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Michael Anthony Novak
