Mikles Natasha L., Laycock Joseph P. (ed.) Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous. Of Gods and Monsters

Lanham (Maryland, USA): Lexington Books: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. — vi, 282 p. — ISBN 9781793640246.Thinking the monsters.
Five Further Theses on Monster Theory and Religious Studies. Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock.
Reiterations: On Tellings, Variants, and Why Monsters Always Come Back. Douglas E. Cowan.
Horror and Bible (Six Theses). Brandon R. Grafius.
A Biological Model of Monster Flaps. William Blake Smith.
Monsters guarding the gates.
The Idea of Evil and Messianic Deliverance in the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition of South Asia. Wafi A. Momin.
Ghost Stories from Tales of Retribution: Understanding Elements of Seventeenth-Century Japanese Ghost Stories. Frank F. Chu.
Of Monsters and Invisible Villages: Nags myi rgod Tales of the Tibetans of Gyalthang. Eric D. Mortensen.
Godly Aromas and Monstrous Stenches: An Analysis of Buddhist New Year Fumigation Rituals in an Indo-Himalayan Borderland. Rohit Singh.
Man, Yeti, and Mi-go: The Transgressive History of a Monstrous Word. Lee A. Weiss.
The Mesopotamian Demon Lamaštu and the Monstrosity of Gender Transgression. Madadh Richey.
Topophilic Perversions: Spectral Blackface and Fetishizing Sites of Monstrosity in American Dark Tourism. Whitney S. May.
Monsters tearing down the gates.
Finding Bigfoot: The Anthropological Machine and the Generation of Monsters. Timothy Grieve-Carlson.
Thomas Jefferson: The First Cryptozoologist? Justin Mullis.
Shapeshifters and Goddesses: Gods, Monsters, and Otherness in the Mysticism of Gloria Anzaldúa. Stefan R. Sanchez.
The Monster Within: Rape and Revenge in Genesis 34. Leland Merritt.
“Monsters among Us”: The Cathartic Carnage of American Horror Story. Heidi Ippolito.
To Eat or to Be Eaten — Chew: A New Study between the Beast and the Sovereign. Elena Pasquini.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the Editors and Contributors.