Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Holy Land
Preface
1. Zoroastrianism: The Beginning of the End
2. Enoch, Daniel, and Jewish Messianism
3. Christianity and the Book of Revelation
4. Islam: Submission to God and the End of Time
Part II. Haiti
Preface
5. The Man with the Empty Head: On the Zombie’s African Origins
6. What is Vodou?
7. Death, Dying, and the Soul in Haitian Vodou
8. Making Zombies in Haiti: Technologies and Types
Part III. Hollywood
Preface
9. How Did Zombies Wind Up in America?
10. Zombies and the Zombie Apocalypse in Cinema and Literature
11. Gaming and Walking the Undead: The Sprawling Zombie in Popular Culture
12. Why Zombies? Sociophobics, Othering, Contagion
Conclusion