Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity: Captain America and the Winter Soldier in a Judaistic Perspective
Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul - the transmigration or reincarnation of the soul - in Kabbalah and Hasidism. Furthermore, the art...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie
[2017]
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Journal for religion, film and media
Jahr: 2017, Band: 3, Heft: 1, Seiten: 105-121 |
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Captain America, Fiktive Gestalt
/ Barnes, James Buchanan, Fiktive Gestalt
/ Inkarnation
/ Gilgul
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik BH Judentum |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Movies of Marvel Comics
B Judaism B Reincarnation B Marvel Comics |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul - the transmigration or reincarnation of the soul - in Kabbalah and Hasidism. Furthermore, the article compares the presentation o these characters and their displacement in the original comics and the subsequent movies. |
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| ISSN: | 2617-3697 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25364/05.3:2017.1.6 |