The invited panelists will draw from their own disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives-including religion, literature, theology, gender studies, art history, cultural theory, and anthropology-to energize a lively discussion about representations of the sacred in graphic narratives.Ĭomics and Sacred Texts is organized in conjunction with the Haverford-Swarthmore spring 2016 course “Reading Comics and Religion,” taught by Yvonne Chireau (Swarthmore) and Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford), and is presented by the John B. The symposium will engage Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, together with explorations of the superhuman body. The symposium Comics and Sacred Texts at Haverford College builds upon these focused studies to develop a broader landscape of religious graphic expression of the sacred.
David Lewis’s edited volume Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (2010), and Samantha Baskind’s and Ranen Omer-Sherman’s editorial work for The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2010).
Crumb’s The Book of Genesis (2009) and JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther (2005), as well as scholarly publications from Karline McLain’s India's Immortal Comic Books (2009), A. Witness, for example, the artistic works from R. The last decade has produced critical and expressive studies in sacred canonical texts and comics. Panel discussions will cover a range of topics in comic and religious studies, including: Seeing the Sacred in Comics Reimagining Sacred Texts through Comics Transfigured Comic Selves, Monsters, and the Body and the Everyday Sacred in Comics. Drawing together the Israeli Cartoon Museum exhibit Bible Stories in Comics, student artistic work in the course Reading Comics and Religion, and contributors to the edited volume Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives, the symposium Comics and Sacred Texts will engage the visual registers of religious expression across a broad spectrum of religious traditions.
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