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Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:34
Publish Date: 2016-03-30 12:00:09
Description: Most people don't normally associate comic books and superheroes with religion. However, Roshan Abraham, a comics studies scholar and assistant professor of religious studies and classics at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals how religion is actually in the DNA of comics. He traces the many ways religion influences, shapes, and appears in comics, and how scholars in both religious and comics studies face very similar problems.
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