Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine follows A. David Lewis's unique scholarly journey through graphic religion and graphic medicine, exploring how comics intersect with healthcare, clinical practice, spirituality, patient experience, and belief. Drawing on more than two decades of academic research, Lewis reframes both fields through the distinct narrative and visual language of comics.
Though often seen as oppositesāspiritual versus scientificāreligion and medicine share concerns with selfhood, community, personal well-being, and transformation. Through comics, Lewis reveals these shared concerns and examines how selfhood, identity, and embodiment emerge through visual storytelling.
Blending scholarship with autobiography, Lewis weaves personal momentsāa religious conversion, experiences with anxiety, and academic work within a healthcare settingāinto a broader analysis of representation and meaning in comic books. His account resists the traditional divide between theory and lived experience, grounding abstract ideas in the personal and the visual.
Body, Soul, and Comics is both a call for disciplinary reunification and a meditation on how comics themselves bridge seemingly disparate realmsātext and image, body and spirit, illness and meaning.
- 173 pages
- English
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Islam, Comic Books, and the Aniconism Fallacy
- Chapter 2: Jewish Comics and the Krypton Hypothesis
- Chapter 3: Superman Graveside: Superhero Salvation Beyond Jesus
- Chapter 4: Whatās Next for Muslim Superheroes?
- Chapter 5: Fictoscripture and the Wormhole Sacred
- Chapter 6: Building Toward Graphic Medicine
- Chapter 7: A Graphic-Medicine Prescription
- Chapter 8: Comics as a Dysoncological Medium
- Chapter 9: Enpaneled Being, Being Enpaneled
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Credits
- Index
- About the Author
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