Category Archives: zombie

New Zombie Anthology: History is Dead

December 3rd, 2007 | Posted in zombie

Kim Paffenroth, author of Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor University Press, 2006), and Dying to Live: a novel of life among the undead (Permutated Press, 2006), has edited a zombie anthology titled History is Dead (Permutated Press, 2007). As the book’s back cover describes it’s contents: Our […]

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Fido: Rewarding Zombie Comedy Provides for Social and Theological Reflection

November 12th, 2007 | Posted in Fido, zombie

This weekend I had an opportunity to rent a few movies, and as I perused the shelves of my local video store I noticed a small number of DVD boxes that immediately caught my eye as the film Fido (Lionsgate, 2007) jumped out at me. I first heard about this interesting zombie comedy through the […]

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Reflections on a Zombie Supper

October 18th, 2007 | Posted in Christianity, zombie

I realize that this post, well, at least the image that accompanies this post, will be off-putting if not repulsive for many evangelical Christian readers, or at least some of them, but try to withhold judgment for a few moments. I don’t know the origins of the image that is an obvious zombie reinterpretation on […]

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Zombie Walks: An International Pop Culture Phenomenon

July 30th, 2007 | Posted in zombie, zombie walks

I have heard of various zombie walks coordinated in differing geographical locations, but a recent email from my friend Matt Stone recommending a video on YouTube from Sydney Australia’s zombie walk indicates that this merits a blog post. Zombie walks are inspired by the increasing popular of the zombie from horror films as a pop […]

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Dying to Live: a novel of life among the undead

July 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Gospel of the Living Dead, zombie

I recently returned from Cornerstone Festival and one of the seminar series that I enjoyed throug the Imaginarium venue was that presented by Kim Paffenroth on the zombie Films of George Romero. Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College in New York, and the author of Gospel of the Living Dead (Baylor […]

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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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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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