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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Genesis 1, Take Two | |
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| Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion | |
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| Paradox of the Monstrous | |
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| Demonizing and Deifying | |
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| Monstrum Tremendum, Mysterium Tremendum | |
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| Religion and Its Monsters | |
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| Chaos Gods | |
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| Fragments from the Ancient Near East | |
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| To Order and Back | |
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| Chaos Mother | |
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| The Cloudrider and the Warrior Goddess | |
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| No Rest | |
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| The Bible and Horror | |
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| Biblical Monsters and Mad Professors | |
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| Water Play or Water Fight | |
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| Disorientation and Theological Horror | |
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| Monstrous Enemies | |
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| Conjuring | |
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| The Sleep of Wisdom | |
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| Job and the Abyss of Suffering | |
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| Absence of All Refuge | |
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| Desiring Chaos | |
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| Lyricism of Terror | |
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| From the Whirlwind | |
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| Rousing God Rousing Leviathan | |
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| Diapered Monster | |
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| Behold Behemoth | |
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| Drawing Out Leviathan | |
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| Wholly Other | |
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| Divine Abyss | |
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| Dinner and a Show | |
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| Watching and Eating Monsters in Rabbinic Tradition | |
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| Seafaring Tales of the Rabbis | |
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| Fresh, Frozen or Salt-cured | |
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| Is This Monster Kosher? | |
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| Jonah's Undersea Adventure | |
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| To the Devil | |
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| Apocalypse | |
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| It's the Edge of the World as We Know It | |
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| Diabolical Dragon | |
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| The Monster-maker's Bible's Bible | |
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| From Beowulf to Dracula to Harry Potter | |
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| Monsters and Their Religion | |
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| New Monsters in Old Skins | |
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| Modern Chaos Battles | |
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| Hobbes' Mortall God | |
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| Theophany | |
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| But Why Leviathan? | |
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| Awe and Order | |
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| Hellraiser | |
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| Other Gods | |
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| Orientalism and Its Monsters | |
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| The Witch's Monkeys | |
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| Rama's Monkeys | |
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| Horrid Chambers of Imagery | |
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| Diabolical Monsters | |
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| Sublime Monsters | |
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| Disoriental Monsters | |
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| The Blood Is the Life | |
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| Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula | |
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| The Count's Religion | |
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| Laws Pertaining to Blood | |
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| Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood | |
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| Rituals of Resacralization | |
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| Transfusion | |
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| One Wedding and a Funeral | |
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| Last Battle | |
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| Screening Monsters | |
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| Movie Time, Sacred Time | |
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| Monstrous Revelations (Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire) | |
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| Stage Rite (Dracula) | |
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| Exorcism (Metropolis) | |
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| Ecomonster | |
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| I Am Become Death | |
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| Ecohorror on Screen | |
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| Demythologizing the Monster | |
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| Shooting the Monster | |
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| These Are Ourselves | |
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| Our Monsters, Ourselves | |
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| Island of the Misfit Boys | |
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| Bela's Hideous Progeny | |
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| Cthulhu Mythos | |
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| Lovecraft's Hideous Progeny | |
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| From Scholars to the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu | |
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| Homesickness | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Here Be Monsters | |
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| Warning | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |