Religious Studies Professor Mark MacWilliams has authored a chapter in the new book Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined edited by Kees de Groot, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? Professor MacWilliams’ chapter, “Manga Pilgrimages: Visualizing the Sacred/Sacralizing the Visual in Japanese Junrei,” focuses on a subset of comics and animated films directly connected to a major form of modern Japanese religious life, leisure travel, and tourism—pilgrimages (junrei).
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