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Release : 2004
Genre : Book of Mormon
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Author : Laura Allred
Release : 2004
Genre : Book of Mormon
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 202/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Golden Plates: Sword of Laban and the tree of life by : Laura Allred
Download or read book The Golden Plates: Sword of Laban and the tree of life written by Laura Allred. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Plates Vol.One: The Sword Of Laban And The Tree Of Life is the first of twelve graphic novels adapting the entire Book Of Mormon. It is thoroughly adapted and illustrated by world renowned comic book artist Michael Allred and award-winning colorist Laura Allred.
Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
Release : 2021-07-27
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 653/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Mormon by : Paul C. Gutjahr
Download or read book The Book of Mormon written by Paul C. Gutjahr. This book was released on 2021-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late one night in 1823, Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world. Gutjahr looks at how the Book of Mormon emerged from the burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the subject of ridicule--Mark Twain called it "chloroform in print"--Has more than 150 million copies in print in more than a hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith's influential book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet, and has been featured in everything from comic books and action figures to feature-length films and an award-winning Broadway musical.--Publisher.
Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Release : 2020-12-11
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Drawing on Religion by : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Download or read book Drawing on Religion written by Ken Koltun-Fromm. This book was released on 2020-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of Islam and Muhammad perceived by many to be blasphemous. As a response to that tragedy, Ken Koltun-Fromm calls for us to expand our moral imaginations through readings of graphic religious narratives. Utilizing a range of comic books and graphic novels, including R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis Illustrated, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, the Vakil brothers’ 40 Sufi Comics, and Ms. Marvel, Koltun-Fromm argues that representing religion in these formats is an ethical issue. By focusing on the representation of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu religious traditions, the comics discussed in this book bear witness to the ethical imagination, the possibilities of traversing religious landscapes, and the problematic status of racial, classed, and gendered characterizations of religious persons. Koltun-Fromm explores what religious stereotypes do and how they function in comics in ways that might expand or diminish our imaginative worlds. The pedagogical challenge, he argues, is to linger in that space and see those worlds well, with both ethical sensitivity and moral imagination. Accessibly written and vibrantly illustrated, this book sheds new light on the ways in which comic arts depict religious faith and culture. It will appeal to students and scholars of religion, literature, and comic studies.
Author : A. David Lewis
Release : 2010-10-21
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Graven Images by : A. David Lewis
Download or read book Graven Images written by A. David Lewis. This book was released on 2010-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
