Something Wicked This Way Comes : Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness.

The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theolog...

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Main Author: Balmain, Colette
Other Authors: Drawmer, Lois
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Part 1 Images of Evil; and if Looks Could Kill: Making Up the Face of Evil / Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Janice Miller
  • Oriental Nightmares: The 'Demonic' Other in Contemporary American Adaptations of Japanese Horror Film / Colette Balmain
  • Hoping for Heaven, Landing in Hell: Lessons Learned at a Medieval Chinese Grotto / Karil Kucera
  • The Cartoon Nationalism of Contemporary Japan / Charles Nuckolls. Part 2 Ethics and Responsibility; Collective Denial: Serbs and the War in Bosnia / Merdijana Sadovic
  • Ethical Aliens: The Challenge of Extreme Perpetrators to Humanism / William Andrew Myers
  • The Problem of Evil Beyond Theology / Alan Watt
  • The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard: Personal Experience on Death, Suffering, and Community Responsibility / Chris Bell
  • Teaching About Evil in History: Demonizing Historical Figures / Robert W. Butler. Part 3 Sex and Seduction; Remarriage and Ass-F**king: Shifty Byzantine Views of Sex / Stephen Morris
  • The Seduction of Evil: An Examination of the Media Culture of the Current White Supremacist Movement / Anthony F. Crisafi
  • Get your kicks on Route 666, or Why the Devil Has All the Best Tunes: Trekking Through the Darker Side of Heavy Metal Music / Frank Faulkner
  • Wicked women: the menace lurking behind female independence / Margarita Carretero Gonzalez.