Christopher Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 674058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5851-1178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evangelical literary tradition and moral foundations theory
Evangelical literature has long used Biblical stories and genres as inspiration for contemporary fictions—think of C. S. Lewis refreshing the gospel story in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and revising the Eden myth in his science fiction novel Perelandra. Yet Biblical literature, as an anthology of sacred writing by scores of authors (and editors) across perhaps a thousand years in wildly different cultural and historical contexts, is a v…
Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old
Apocalypse is a phenomenology of disorder that entails a range of religious affects and experiences largely outside normative expectations of benevolent religion. Vindication, judgment, revenge, resentment, righteous hatred of one's enemies, the wish for their imminent destruction, theological certainty, the triumphant display of right authority, right judgement, and just punishment-these are the primary affects. As a literary genre and a worldvi…
This Is The Shack That Job Built
William Paul Young’s bestselling evangelical novel The Shack (2007) is a twenty-first century re-imagining of the Biblical book of Job, a re-imagining that strangely multiplies the number of divine beings responding to the problem of suffering. I argue that Young has inadvertently rediscovered the ancient Israelite polytheism of three thousand years ago, for the simple reason that justifying the gods’ ways to humans is an easier task than justify…
Religion and Fake News
One of the weirdest examples of fake news during the 2016–2017 elections in the West was the conspiracy known as “Pizzagate.” Supposedly, a D.C. restaurant housed a pedophilia ring involving member
Elasticity in portion selection is predicted by severity of anorexia and food type in adolescents
A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism
The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism.Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theor…
What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them
Research Article| March 01 2006 What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity Christopher Douglas Christopher Douglas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Douglas; What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race,…
"You Have Unleashed a Horde of Barbarians!"
You Have Unleashed a Horde of Barbarians!": Fighting Indians, Playing Games, Forming Disciplines Christopher Douglas Abstract We are about four or five years into the formation of a new discipline, that of digital game studies. At this early stage, digital game studies is necessarily and self-consciously concerned with its own formation, and recent commentators have differed over whether digital games should become part of an already existing dis…
Elasticity in portion selection is predicted by severity of anorexia and food type in adolescents
This Is The Shack That Job Built
William Paul Young’s bestselling evangelical novel The Shack (2007) is a twenty-first century re-imagining of the Biblical book of Job, a re-imagining that strangely multiplies the number of divine beings responding to the problem of suffering. I argue that Young has inadvertently rediscovered the ancient Israelite polytheism of three thousand years ago, for the simple reason that justifying the gods’ ways to humans is an easier task than justify…
Religion and Fake News
One of the weirdest examples of fake news during the 2016–2017 elections in the West was the conspiracy known as “Pizzagate.” Supposedly, a D.C. restaurant housed a pedophilia ring involving member
"You Have Unleashed a Horde of Barbarians!"
You Have Unleashed a Horde of Barbarians!": Fighting Indians, Playing Games, Forming Disciplines Christopher Douglas Abstract We are about four or five years into the formation of a new discipline, that of digital game studies. At this early stage, digital game studies is necessarily and self-consciously concerned with its own formation, and recent commentators have differed over whether digital games should become part of an already existing dis…
What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them
Research Article| March 01 2006 What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity Christopher Douglas Christopher Douglas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Douglas; What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race,…
A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism
The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism.Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theor…
Elasticity in portion selection is predicted by severity of anorexia and food type in adolescents
Religion and Fake News
One of the weirdest examples of fake news during the 2016–2017 elections in the West was the conspiracy known as “Pizzagate.” Supposedly, a D.C. restaurant housed a pedophilia ring involving member
This Is The Shack That Job Built
William Paul Young’s bestselling evangelical novel The Shack (2007) is a twenty-first century re-imagining of the Biblical book of Job, a re-imagining that strangely multiplies the number of divine beings responding to the problem of suffering. I argue that Young has inadvertently rediscovered the ancient Israelite polytheism of three thousand years ago, for the simple reason that justifying the gods’ ways to humans is an easier task than justify…
Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old
Apocalypse is a phenomenology of disorder that entails a range of religious affects and experiences largely outside normative expectations of benevolent religion. Vindication, judgment, revenge, resentment, righteous hatred of one's enemies, the wish for their imminent destruction, theological certainty, the triumphant display of right authority, right judgement, and just punishment-these are the primary affects. As a literary genre and a worldvi…
Evangelical literary tradition and moral foundations theory
Evangelical literature has long used Biblical stories and genres as inspiration for contemporary fictions—think of C. S. Lewis refreshing the gospel story in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and revising the Eden myth in his science fiction novel Perelandra. Yet Biblical literature, as an anthology of sacred writing by scores of authors (and editors) across perhaps a thousand years in wildly different cultural and historical contexts, is a v…
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