America's dark theologian : the religious imagination of Stephen King /

Cowan, Douglas E.,

America's dark theologian : the religious imagination of Stephen King / Douglas E. Cowan. - New York : NYU Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

America's dark theologian: reading Stephen King religiously -- Thin spots: what peeks through the cracks in the world -- Deadfall: ghost stories as God-talk -- A jumble of blacks and whites: becoming religious -- Return to Ackerman's field: ritual and the unseen order -- Forty years in Maine: Stephen King and the varieties of religious experience -- If it be your will: theodicy, morality, and the nature of God -- The land beyond: cosmology and the never-ending questions.



9781479849543


King, Stephen, 1947- --Criticism and interpretation.


Religion in literature.
Theology in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS3561 / .A447 2018