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December 2011 tovah burstein nonfiction mutants and mystics. Jeffrey kripal is professor of philosophy and religious thought and chair of the department of religious studies at rice university, texas, and since his youth an avid comic book reader and collector, two sides of his life that come together beautifully in mutants and mystics. It is about how we go here and why it is so important for the deep reader of science fiction and superhero comics to think, rigorously, about the mindblowing terrain of. Starting with the first superman comic in 1938, kripal weaves discussions of modern mythmaking, enlightenment experiences and autobiographical accounts of extreme religious experiences into a single, overarching superstory. Jeff kripal has written the introduction to my upcoming book solving the. In this strange and complex scholarly work, kripal religious studies, rice univ authors of the impossible.
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