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Religion and the Evolving Vampire Myth

Prof J Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, explores religion's continuing relevance in today’s vampire novels and films.


Bram Stoker injected religion into the modern vampire myth; his vampire hunters fought the evil Dracula with crosses, holy water and Eucharistic wafers. Do such Christian tools still work in our secularised and multi-religious world?

Prof J Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, explores religion's continuing relevance in today’s vampire novels and films.

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Speaker(s):

Professor J Gordon Melton | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

30 January 2013 at 8:00 pm

Duration:

2 hours

 

Venue:

The Bell
50 Middlesex Street
London
E1 7EX
0207 247 3459
http://www.thebellpub.co.uk/i
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Organised by:

London Fortean Society
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Tickets:

£3 / £2 concessions

Available from:

the door

Additional Information:

Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East stations

7.45 for 8pm start. £3/£2 concessions

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