Preface: Marveling Religion: Visual Culture as a Common Tongue
Daniel White Hodge and Jennifer Baldwin
Technology, Violence, and Sacrifice
Chapter One: “I See A Suit of Armor Around the World: Tony Stark’s Techno-Idolatry and Self-Sacrificial Love
George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl
Chapter Two: Mimesis, Conflict, and Sacrificial Crisis in Black Panther
Matthew Brake
Chapter Three: Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
Ken Derry, Daniel White Hodge, Laurel Zwissler, Stanley Talbert, Matthew J. Cressler, and Jon Ivan Gill
Power, Worth, and Society
Chapter Four: Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok
Rhiannon Gran and Jo Henderson-Merrygold
Chapter Five: The Worthiness of Thor
Adam Barkman and Bennett Soenen
Chapter Six: “Who Are You?”:René Girard, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Panther
Ryan Smock
Chapter Seven: The Failure of a God: Thor, the Snap, and Post-Holocaust Political Theology
Andrew T. Vink
Chapter Eight: Mysterio as Antichrist in SpiderMan: Far From Home
George Tsakiridis
Deconstructing Norms, Imagining the New
Chapter Nine: Science and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Deconstructing the Boundary between Science, Technology, and Religion
Lisa Stenmark
Chapter Ten: Religion, Science, and the Marvel Universe: Re-Imagining Human-Earth Relations
Whitney Bauman and Imran Khan
Chapter Eleven: “Open Your Eye”: Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Trauma Resolution
Jennifer Baldwin
Forming Identity
Chapter Twelve: Marvelling at Captain Danvers, Or What is So Super About Our Heroes: Contesting the Identity Politics of Self-Other
John C. McDowell
Chapter Thirteen: The Super Muslim and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A Complicated Trajectory of Fantasy and Agency
Dilyana Mincheva
Chapter Fourteen: Bad Girls Turned Superwomen: A Critical Appraisal of the MCU Archetype for Superheroines
Will Abney