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Dr. Bryan Stone discusses how horror cinema reflects Christian anxieties through its portrayal of monsters.

Show Notes: Dr. Bryan Stone has spent roughly a decade researching a single question: what does horror cinema reveal about Christianity? Watching hundreds of films across several sub-genres — ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, nature horror, the demonic, and psychological horror — he built a case that the monsters of Western horror aren't random. They're the monsters Christianity is responsible for: reflections of centuries of Christian anxiety about bodies, nature, and sin. He's Dean of Per...

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Guest: Dr. Bryan Stone

Topics covered

• horror cinema
• Christianity
• monsters
• anxiety
• bodies
• nature
• sin

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Organizations: Oxford University United Methodist Church

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