Anime, Philosophy and Religion
About this ebook
Anime is exotic to Western eyes and culture. That is one of the reasons anime has gained worldwide popularity. This strange aesthetic draws the audience in only to find it is deeper and more sophisticated than its surface appearance. Japan is an honor and shame culture. Anime provides a platform to discuss “universal” problems facing human beings. It does so in an amazing variety of ways and subgenres, and often with a sense of humor. The themes, characters, stories, plotlines, and development are often complex. This makes anime a deep well of philosophical, metaphysical, and religious ideas for analysis.
International scholars are represented in this book. There is a diversity of perspectives on a diversity of anime, themes, content, and analysis. It hopes to delve deeper into the complex world of anime and demonstrate why it deserves the respect of scholars and the public alike.
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About the author
Kaz Hayashi did his Ph.D. in Old Testament at Baylor University. He is an Associate Professor of Old Testament at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He has a passion for biblical archaeology and historiography and has been on several digs in Israel. Kaz was born and raised in Japan and has a passion for anime.
William H. U. Anderson did his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies and Theology in Postmodern Literary Critical Circles at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Bill is Professor of Pop Culture, Philosophy and Religion at Concordia University of Edmonton in Canada. He is the author of 'Qoheleth and Its Pessimistic Theology: Hermeneutical Struggles in Wisdom Literature' (1997) and 'Scepticism and Ironic Correlations in the Joy Statements of Qoheleth?' (2010). Bill has worked interdisciplinarily throughout his academic career, and this is his fifth edited volume with Vernon Press in the Philosophy of Religion Series.
