The Gospel According to Twilight

When you think about popular culture and religion studies for your community of faith, vampires may not be the first thing that comes to mind! The Twilight series, however, is an indisputable part of our popular culture and many suggest the Twilight saga is filled with spiritual and religious themes including salvation, resurrection, reconciliation, love, grace, and how we view women in society.
Name: The Gospel According to Twilight
Course Number: SSOL-POP 0010
Course Time: Offline Course (Resources provided below)
Course ID: 00067
Course Days: Offline Course (Resources provided below)
Notes: Explore these films and this book to deepen your own spiritual journey and/or utilize them to create an educational event in your own religious community.

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The Gospel According to Twilight: Women, Sex, and God
The Twilight saga has become one of the most successful fiction series ever written, with more than one hundred million copies in print and several blockbuster films. Despite the tremendous commercial success Twilight has generated, few readers have analyzed its theological teachings or the messages Stephenie Meyer might be sending to women and teenage girls. This book offers both a feminist critique of Twilight and a theological review of the stories’ ideas about salvation, heaven and hell, power, reconciliation, resurrection, and organized religion.

Elaine Heath writes in an accessible voice, calling attention to both the ‘good news’ of Twilight’s theology and the ‘bad news’ of its gender stereotypes and depictions of violence against women.

The book includes questions for youth and adult groups or for classroom discussions.

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