Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques

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Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques is written by Michael E. Heyes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1498550770 (ISBN 10) and 9781498550772 (ISBN 13).

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses upon the view of the monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who were themselves branded as monsters. Overlapping partially with the Early Modern and proceeding to the present day, the contributions of the second part of the volume attempt to problematize the dichotomy of secular/religious through a close look at the monsters this period has wrought.