Category Archives: horror

Douglas Cowan and Sacred Terror: Part 2

February 19th, 2007 | Posted in Douglas Cowan, horror, religion, Sacred Terror

Following is the second part of the interview with Douglas Cowan on the subject matter surrounding hisforthcoming book Sacred Terror. TF: In your book you discuss the “metataxis of horror.” Can you briefly define this and how you discuss it in your book? Doug Cowan: The “metataxis of horror” refers to the process by which […]

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Douglas Cowan and Sacred Terror: Part 1

February 16th, 2007 | Posted in Douglas Cowan, horror, religion, Sacred Terror

Douglas Cowan is a leading scholar working in the area of new religions. Formerly he taught at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, and he now teaches at Renison College/University of Waterloo. He is the author of a number of books, including Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (Blackwell, 2007); Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans […]

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Archetypes, Myths, and Horror

February 12th, 2007 | Posted in archetypes, horror, myths

The description on this blog states that it includes an exploration of archetypes and myths as they relate to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Before I get too far on posting on this blog it would be a good idea to explain what I mean by this. While I have reflected on various elements related […]

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Kim Paffenroth Interview: Zombies, Religion and Popular Culture

February 9th, 2007 | Posted in Gospel of the Living Dead, horror, Kim Paffenroth, The Truth is Out There, zombie

Kim Paffenroth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College, New York. He has written on the development of religious ideas in the major world religions, as well as on the Bible and theology, but another interest of his is of particular relevance to this blog, that is the intersection of religion and popular […]

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Christianity and Horror

February 4th, 2007 | Posted in Christianity, Exorcism of Emily Rose, horror

I did some poking around on the Internet over the weekend and discovered that TheoFantastique has already attracted the interest of several bloggers and has been added to blog rolls. I am surprised and humbled by this. I hope my comments and explorations here are worthy of the interest. As I looked around the Internet […]

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Gospel of the Living Dead

January 31st, 2007 | Posted in horror, Paffenroth, pop culture, zombie

I purchase and read a lot of books for my seminary studies and ministry research. As a result, I am on a lot of mailing lists for book publishers. Most of the catalogs don’t include titles that interest me, but today I received a promotional postcard for a new book from Baylor press that’s right […]

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Sci Fi, Fantasy Horror, and “Reel’ Spirituality

January 31st, 2007 | Posted in film, horror, science fiction

I still remember one night in the 1970s when my dad gave my younger brother and I the option of watching The Wonderful World of Disney on television as part of our regular family habit, or a horror film on another channel. The curiosity of youth being what it was, we chose the horror film, […]

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