Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma [electronic resource] /
Kotrosits, Maia.author.
Taussig, H.author.
Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mark's Trauma-Filled Ending; Mark's Ending; The Ending of Mark and the Challenge of Pain; Chapter 2: Mark's Carefully Crafted Story; Mark Structures Its Story; Mark's Historical Context; Destruction In and Around Mark; Ways Mark Undermines Assumptions about the World, God, and Humanity; Mark and Repair; Chapter 3: Blood Relations: Pain and the Social Body; Chapter 4: National Brokenness and Belonging; Mark and Nation; The Futures of Broken Nations; Healing and Social Structures
Chapter 5: Brightness and Repair in the Face of PovertyTransfiguration in Mark; Transfiguring Frozen River; Poverty and Trauma in the First and Twenty-First Centuries; America, Trauma, and Poverty; Mark, Frozen River, and American Poverty; Chapter 6: When the Inner Circle Collapses: Family and Betrayal; The Passion of Mark; The Future of Family; Chapter 7: Disillusionment and the Allure of Destruction; Mark, Masculinity, and Loss; Women in Mark and Fight Club; Mark and the Loss of Masculinity in the Present; Chapter 8: Visions of the End; Mark's Vision of the End
Environmental Apocalypses: Destroying and Saving the EarthThe Unruly Creation in Mark; Chapter 9: Suspense, Wonder, and Indirect Addresses to Loss; Paranoid Mark, Reparative Mark; Chapter 10: Following Mark's Jesus toward Provisional Selfhood; Following Jesus Toward Surprising Selfhood amidst Loss and Trauma; Following Jesus, Reading Mark as Practice for the Self and Community; Reading Mark as Spiritual Practice; Mark and Faith Categories of Redemption, Glory, and Salvation; The Ambivalence of Returns; The Unlikely Project of Reading Mark as if It Is Not in the Bible; Notes; Introduction
Chapter 1Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-184) and index.
Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
Bible.
Religion—History.
Bible—Theology.
Theology.
Psychoanalysis.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
History of Religion.
Biblical Studies.
Christian Theology.
Psychoanalysis.
Cultural Studies.
Gender Studies.