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Book Review: Comics and Sacred Texts | 109www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 105–109 the reader to rediscover the sacred in the most uncommon places. If one was to find something like a common denominator for all the diverse and inspiring essays collected in Comics and Sacred Texts, this would be it: the recognition, reminding of Martin Buber, that the experience of the sacred in the modern world is nothing more than a personal encounter in the shape of a comic book in the hands of an inquisitive reader. Bibliography Baskind, Samantha / Omer-Sherman, Ranen (eds.), 2010, The Jewish Graphic Novel. Critical Approaches, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Born, Simon Philipp, 2017, Shadows of the Bat. Constructing Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan, Journal for Religion, Film and Media 3, 1, 75–104. Brooker, Will, 2012, Hunting Down the Dark Knight. Twenty-First Century Batman, London: I. B. Tauris. Cariello, Sergio / Mauss, Doug, 2010, The Action Bible. God’s Redemptive Story, Colorado Springs: David C. Cook. Claremont, Chris / Byrne, John, 2006, X-Men. The Dark Phoenix Saga, New York: Marvel. Crumb, Robert, 2009, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, New York: W. W. Norton. Durkheim, Émile, 2008 [1915], The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, trans. Joseph Ward Swain, Mineola, NY: Dover. Eco, Umberto / Chilton, Natalie, 1972, The Myth of Superman, Diacritics 2, 1, 14–22. Eisner, Will, 2006 [1978], A Contract with God, New York: W. W. Norton. Fingeroth, Dann, 2008, Disguised as Clark Kent. Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Super- hero, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. McLain, Karline, 2009, India’s Immortal Comic Books. Gods, Kings, and other Heroes, Bloom- ington: Indiana University Press. Morrison, Grant, 2012, Supergods. What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human, New York: Spiegel & Grau. Thompson, Craig, 2011, Habibi, New York: Pantheon.