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Hardback. New. Three recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind series. The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms transfigurations of transcendence: hopeful albeit paradoxical encodings of the ambiguous, non-observable reality whose primary locus in modern society is the societally extra-systemic human individual. Popular fantasy fiction turns out to involve acts of world-creation that are inherently religious and inherently paradoxical.A substantive examination shows that all three are involved in more or less intentional re-narrations of traditional Christian beliefs and narratives. The "atheist" His Dark Materials series does not deny but re-imagines the Christian visions of selfhood; the…
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Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind: Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity Hardcover - 2013
by Mike Gray
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- Title Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind: Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity
- Author Mike Gray
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 308
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- Date 2013-11
- ISBN 9783525604472 / 3525604475
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.38 x 1.02 in (23.60 x 16.21 x 2.59 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
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