William S Chavez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William S Chavez |
| GIVEN NAMES | William S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chavez |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVEZ W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3267-7350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Satanism
Guns, Thorns, and Zeal
What are the political, gender, and theological implications at stake when associating Jesus with modern combat and righteous violence? Jesus is rendered in combative form across media-i.e., live-action films and shorts, animated television, sketch comedy, graphic novels, and video games. This rendition occurs at a confluence of meaning, most immediately for the sake of generating comedy through juxtaposition (in this case, rendering the meek wit…
Old Stories, New Victims
Horror operates as social history and social practice, regularly sacrificing symbolic threats to normalcy and proper socialization to the altar of hegemony. Possession/exorcism cinema, which likewise functions through iterative scapegoating, is typically studied according to its exploitation of young women/girls—with little consideration of possessed young men and those embedded within other social dynamics. This article analyzes A Nightmare on E…
What If We Were Savage?” Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the transmedia worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of “Ozploitation.” This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia’s colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—“Maxtralia”—plummets into the savagery inv…
Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual
The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States. After a brief commentary regarding the place of Satanism within contemporary Catholic imagination, this article posits that the Catholic Church's recent institutional support of its office of exorcist must not be viewed separately from its discursive fear of Satanic cults and l…
Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual
The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States. After a brief commentary regarding the place of Satanism within contemporary Catholic imagination, this article posits that the Catholic Church's recent institutional support of its office of exorcist must not be viewed separately from its discursive fear of Satanic cults and l…
Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual
The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States. After a brief commentary regarding the place of Satanism within contemporary Catholic imagination, this article posits that the Catholic Church's recent institutional support of its office of exorcist must not be viewed separately from its discursive fear of Satanic cults and l…
What If We Were Savage?” Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the transmedia worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of “Ozploitation.” This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia’s colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—“Maxtralia”—plummets into the savagery inv…
Old Stories, New Victims
Horror operates as social history and social practice, regularly sacrificing symbolic threats to normalcy and proper socialization to the altar of hegemony. Possession/exorcism cinema, which likewise functions through iterative scapegoating, is typically studied according to its exploitation of young women/girls—with little consideration of possessed young men and those embedded within other social dynamics. This article analyzes A Nightmare on E…
Guns, Thorns, and Zeal
What are the political, gender, and theological implications at stake when associating Jesus with modern combat and righteous violence? Jesus is rendered in combative form across media-i.e., live-action films and shorts, animated television, sketch comedy, graphic novels, and video games. This rendition occurs at a confluence of meaning, most immediately for the sake of generating comedy through juxtaposition (in this case, rendering the meek wit…
Satanism
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Exorcism (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works)