Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Christian Explanations of Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman When Christianity became the dominant religion of the Western world in 313, beginning with Emperor Const...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Religious and Scientific Accounts of Sex Demons

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Eros and Evil , R. E. L. Masters theorizes that the accounts of sex with demons that women ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Women Writers: Greater than the Sum of Their Parts

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneer Horror & Speculative Fiction , Lisa Kroger a...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 9

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Having provided both Freudian and Christian definitions and examples of erotic horror, I would now, in...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 6

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Freudian psychoanalysis is all about sex. Christianity concerns, among other important issues, human r...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 5

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman For Sigmund Freud and his followers, a witch is basically a hysterical woman. Of course, for Freu...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Social Protest vs. (a) Religious Tolerance or (b) Hellfire Under the Dome

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Copyrigjt 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Two forces which conflict with the authoritarian regime that arises in Chester’s Mill, Maine, in the wake ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Modern Monsters

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.” -- Pogo Before Christianity, paganism supplied humanity’s monsters...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Revisiting the Numinous

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Through images and emblems associated with a vanished craft or practice, a writer of fantasy or horror fi...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Motivation as Explanation

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In earlier posts, we have considered the nature of evil as various horror writers have defined it. Some h...
Friday, January 18, 2008

The Appeal of the Esoteric

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Copyright 2008 by Gray L. Pullman Your fingers weave quick minarets, Speaking secret alphabets --Doors, “Ship of Fools” Everyone likes secre...