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The Forbidden Body

Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination

Douglas E. Cowan

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie

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From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together

Throughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed—or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left, or been forced out of, their “proper” place. The Forbidden Body examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror.

Taking a broad approach not limited to horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made visible and reinforced through popular horror tropes. The volume challenges the reader to move beyond preconceived notions of religion in order to decipher the “religious imagination” at play in the scary stories we tell over and over again.

Cowan argues that stories of religious bodies “out of place” are so compelling because they force us to consider questions that religious belief cannot comfortably answer: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why do we suffer? And above all, do we matter? As illuminating as it is unsettling, The Forbidden Body offers a fascinating look at how and why we imagine bodies in all the wrong places.

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Graphic novels, Marquis de Sade, Anti-Catholic nativism, Cosmic horror, Nunsploitation, Lustmord, Nudity, B movies, Legion of Decency, Religious Imagination, Alien invasion, Sexual bodies, Clive Barker, Monstrous body, Queer horror, Skepticism, Sigmund Freud, Devil, Dracula, The Wicker Man, Censorship, Ritual rarity, Sexualized advertising, Riddle, Enigma, Nun fetish, Tanya Luhrmann, Cosmic indifference, Horror mode, Human sacrifice, Witchcraft, Religious imagination, The Exorcist, Weird Tales, Pulp fiction, Realization, Thomas Rowlandson, Religious questions, Interpretive drift, The Witch, Anti-Pagan activism, Anthropology, Monstering, Motion Picture Production Code, Edward Lee, Margaret Brundage, Matthew Lewis, Sex, Wrath James White, Exploitation, Ambiguity, Cthulhu Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Morality, Roger Corman, Fear, Maria Monk, Numinous, Spatter horror, Rudolf Otto, Evolutionary psychology, Religion, Horror genre, King Kong, Sadeian horror, Motion Picture Association of America, Clovis Trouille, Horror