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academic

CFP – Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

(Thank you to Marc Singer, author of the new Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies, for bringing this to Sacred and Sequential‘s attention.)

Call for Papers:
Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lexington Books (Initial Interest)

Editors: Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge

Art by Marissa GarnerMarveling Religion: Critical Discourse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume with interest in contracting and publishing from Lexington Books. It aims to explore central themes of race, gender, religion, politics, society, love, time, space, power, soul, reality, or mind, etc. as expressed (or neglected) in phases 1-3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ultimately, the invitation is: As religious and/or theological scholars, what do our perspectives contribute to popular discourse on the MCU?

What shall we say about the snap—or any other fascinating dimension of the MCU? How might aspects of intersectionality be at work in the MCU? How does one define evil and good via the MCU?

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interviews, online

What Do Superheroes Tell Us about Ourselves?

In November, radio station KUOW sat done with both G. Willow Wilson and Reza Aslan to explore the question “What do our superheroes tell us about ourselves?” The conversation, of course, addressed morality and religion, what with Wilson being a Muslim writer perhaps best known for the Muslim superheroine Ms. Marvel and Aslan being a Religion Studies expert.

Aslan pointed out that superheroes have changed a lot since their conception nearly a century ago. The stories are darker. The heroes dwell in gray areas more often. The moral dilemmas are more compelling.

“We have to make these characters interesting by making them reflect the morality the world in which we live,” he said.

Wilson and Aslan said that one thing is clear: Change is constant, as is our resistance to change.

Authors Reza Aslan and G. Willow Wilson. KUOW PHOTO/GIL AEGERTER

The over-thirty-minute conversation covered a range of issues and superhero properties, and it can be heard in full at the KUOW website.