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The paradox of pleasure experienced through horror films/books can be explained partly as stemming from relief from real-life horror in the experience of horror in play, partly as a safe way to return in adult life to the paralysing feelings of infantile helplessness.
[1] [2] Such films commonly use religious elements, including the crucifix or cross, holy water, the Bible, the rosary, the sign of the cross, the church, and prayer, which are forms of religious symbols and rituals used to depict the use of faith to defeat evil. [3] Despite its main focus on religion, it can also contain graphic violence. [4] [5]
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
[4] [5] Adding to the difficulty, religion is a complex and modern Western concept, [6] [7] one whose definition still has no scholarly consensus. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 5 ] In general, however, religion is considered an abstraction which entails beliefs , doctrines , and sacred places .
[224]: 1–2 The Bible reflects how perceptions of violence changed for its authors. [224]: 261 Phyllis Trible, in her now famous work Texts of Terror, tells four Bible stories of suffering in ancient Israel where women are the victims. Tribble describes the Bible as "a mirror" that reflects humans, and human life, in all its "holiness and horror".
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Horror and terror, two concepts in Gothic literature and film; Horror Channel, a former name of the British television channel Legend "The horror! The horror!", a line uttered by Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness and its 1979 film adaptation Apocalypse Now