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# American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genr

**Author:** Mills, Anthony
**Price:** $68.99
**Category:** Manga
**Age Rating:** 13+
**Genres:** graphic-novel
**Pages:** 226
**Publisher:** Routledge
**Publication Date:** 2018-02-01

## Description

<p>This book explores the idea of the "American monomyth" that pervades American hero stories and examines its philosophical and theological origins and specific manifestations in early American superhero comics. Surveying the anthropologies of six American theologians who argue against many of the monomyth's assumptions, principally the staunch individualism taken to be the model of humanity, and who offer relationality as a more realistic and ethical alternative, this book offers a d

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