Ontological fusion of reality and fiction: implicitly religious communication through comic strips
Religious content may be communicated by means of a comic strip combining image- and text-based narration. The article focuses on the implicitly religious presentation of a completely profane image series through an analysis of a Czech comic strip about a club of five boys. As opposed to the interpr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 146-163 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Foglar, Jaroslav 1907-1999, Rychlé šípy
/ Comic strip
/ Invisible religion
/ Fiction
/ Possible world
/ Reality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBK Europe (East) TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
fictive world
B comic strip B possible world B Rapid Arrows B Implicit Religion |
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| Summary: | Religious content may be communicated by means of a comic strip combining image- and text-based narration. The article focuses on the implicitly religious presentation of a completely profane image series through an analysis of a Czech comic strip about a club of five boys. As opposed to the interpretation of a comic strip as a fictive world with an ontological status of unrealised possibilities, this article prefers the category of a possible world realised through the reader’s experience. In this way, the distinctive world of comics provides a platform similar to the Platonic ideas or Jungian archetypes, linking the profane and sacred spheres. A completely non-religious comic strip created by an author indifferent to religion may thus be understood as a communication of the values and ideas of implicit religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5629 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2023.2249139 |