Louise Child
Biographic Data
| ID | 4497010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Child |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Child |
| SIGNATURE | CHILD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Magic and Spells in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Introduction Many examinations of magic and witchcraft in film and television focus on the gender dynamics depicted and what these can reveal about attitudes to women and power in the eras in which they were made. For example, Campbell, in Cheerfully Empowered: The Witch-Wife in Twentieth Century Literature, Television and Film draws from scholarship such as Greene's Bell, Book and Camera, Gibson's Witchcraft Myths in American Culture, and Murphy…
Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts
Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media’s fascination with dreams, pagan gods and goddesses, vampires, and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of anthropological studies of societies in which human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Star Trek an…
Subtle Bodies, Wrathful Deities and Men in Buddhist Tantric Traditions
Combining fearsome images, ‘magical’ rites of subjugation and challenging portrayals of sexuality, wrathful deities appear to epitomize all that makes tantric Buddhism distant from early Buddhism’s traditional orientations. On one level, this distance can be attributed to processes of incorporation of ‘demonic’ elements from other indigenous religious traditions. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of Durkheim and Mauss, however, I will arg…
Tantric Revisionings
Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion, by Geoffrey Samuel. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005 x +393 pp., £60.00. ISBN 0-7546-5280-7 (hb)
Mantras and Spells
This article, located within the sociology of religion, aims to demonstrate ways in which the insights of Durkheim and Mauss can be applied to the study of tantric Buddhism. In order to do so it explores a specific theme, the significance of speech in religion. I will therefore begin with sections from the recent translation of Mauss's thesis on prayer, highlighting two essential propositions (1909/t.2003). Firstly, Mauss argues that prayer is an…
Mantras and Spells
This article, located within the sociology of religion, aims to demonstrate ways in which the insights of Durkheim and Mauss can be applied to the study of tantric Buddhism. In order to do so it explores a specific theme, the significance of speech in religion. I will therefore begin with sections from the recent translation of Mauss's thesis on prayer, highlighting two essential propositions (1909/t.2003). Firstly, Mauss argues that prayer is an…
Mantras and Spells
This article, located within the sociology of religion, aims to demonstrate ways in which the insights of Durkheim and Mauss can be applied to the study of tantric Buddhism. In order to do so it explores a specific theme, the significance of speech in religion. I will therefore begin with sections from the recent translation of Mauss's thesis on prayer, highlighting two essential propositions (1909/t.2003). Firstly, Mauss argues that prayer is an…
Subtle Bodies, Wrathful Deities and Men in Buddhist Tantric Traditions
Combining fearsome images, ‘magical’ rites of subjugation and challenging portrayals of sexuality, wrathful deities appear to epitomize all that makes tantric Buddhism distant from early Buddhism’s traditional orientations. On one level, this distance can be attributed to processes of incorporation of ‘demonic’ elements from other indigenous religious traditions. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of Durkheim and Mauss, however, I will arg…
Tantric Revisionings
Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion, by Geoffrey Samuel. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005 x +393 pp., £60.00. ISBN 0-7546-5280-7 (hb)
Magic and Spells in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Introduction Many examinations of magic and witchcraft in film and television focus on the gender dynamics depicted and what these can reveal about attitudes to women and power in the eras in which they were made. For example, Campbell, in Cheerfully Empowered: The Witch-Wife in Twentieth Century Literature, Television and Film draws from scholarship such as Greene's Bell, Book and Camera, Gibson's Witchcraft Myths in American Culture, and Murphy…
Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts
Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media’s fascination with dreams, pagan gods and goddesses, vampires, and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of anthropological studies of societies in which human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Star Trek an…
Art (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)