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Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion

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dc.creatorDerry, Ken
dc.creatorWhite Hodge, Daniel
dc.creatorZwissler, Laurel
dc.creatorTalbert, Stanley
dc.creatorCressler, Matthew J.
dc.creatorGill, Jon Ivan
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-15T11:47:08Z
dc.date.available2023-05-15T11:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThere are many ways to think about religion and popular culture. One method is to ask where and when we see what might be commonly understood as “religious tradition(s)” explicitly on display. Another is to think about superhero narratives themselves as “religious”, using this term as a conceptual tool for categorizing and thereby better understanding particular dimensions of human experience. This article takes a variety of approaches to understanding religion in relation to the recent television series LUKE CAGE (Netflix, US 2016). These approaches take their hermeneutical cues from a range of disciplines, including studies of the Bible; Hip Hop; gender; Black Theology; African American religion; and philosophy. The results of this analysis highlight the polysemic nature of popular culture in general, and of superhero stories in particular. Like religious traditions themselves, the show is complex and contradictory: it is both progressive and reactionary; emphasizes community and valorizes an individual; critiques and endorses Christianity; subverts and promotes violence. Depending on the questions asked, LUKE CAGE (2016) provides a range of very different answers.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.3:2017.1.7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19454
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/83
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20641
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectBulletproof Loveen
dc.subject2016en
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.workLUKE CAGE
dc.titleBulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religionen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-15T14:00:40
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/83
local.source.epage155
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleDrawn Stories, Moving Images. Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations
local.source.spage123
local.source.volume3
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20646602

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