Something wicked this way comes : essays on evil and human wickedness / edited by Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Balmain, Colette.

Drawmer, Lois.

Conference Name:

Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (6th : 2005 : Prague)

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Congresses.

Ethics.

Good and evil--Congresses.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theological concepts of evil, media representations of evil, contemporary debates surrounding the Bosnia war and woman perpetrators in Birkenau, and the construction of the Other as evil in the face of the continuing hysteria over AIDS. The range of the papers collected here makes this book essential reading for students of all humanities disciplines.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Preface / Colette Balmain

“....and if Looks Could Kill:” Making Up the Face of Evil / Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Janice Miller

Oriental Nightmares: The ‘Demonic’ Other in Contemporary American Adaptations of Japanese Horror Film / Colette Balmain

Hoping for Heaven, Landing in Hell: Lessons Learned at a Medieval Chinese Grotto / Karil Kucera

The Cartoon Nationalism of Contemporary Japan / Charles Nuckolls

Collective Denial: Serbs and the War in Bosnia / Merdijana Sadovic

Ethical Aliens: The Challenge of Extreme Perpetrators to Humanism / William Andrew Myers

The Problem of Evil Beyond Theology / Alan Watt

The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard: Personal Experience on Death, Suffering, and “Community Responsibility” / Chris Bell

Teaching About Evil in History: Demonizing Historical Figures / Robert W. Butler

Remarriage and Ass-F**king: Shifty Byzantine Views of Sex / Stephen Morris

The Seduction of Evil: An Examination of the Media Culture of the Current White Supremacist Movement / Anthony F. Crisafi

“Get your kicks on Route 666”, or Why the Devil Has All the Best Tunes: Trekking Through the Darker Side of Heavy Metal Music / Frank Faulkner

Wicked Women: The Menace Lurking Behind Female Independence / Margarita Carretero-González and Mª Elena Rodríguez-Martín

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Collected papers expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, March 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-59426-5

9786612594267

90-420-2879-3

1-4416-0645-9

OCLC:

659500171

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042028791 DOI