“Land of Strange Gods and Cruel Practices of Antiquity”. Depictions of Indian Religious Systems in the Golden Age of American Comic Books

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Catalogue identifier: klm000121
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000121
Author or attribution: Marcin Ciemniewski
Record type: Article
Language: English
Date / edition: 2025
Source / repository: Studia Religiologica; Jagiellonian University Repository
Access: Open access
Subjects: Recent Research Sources — 8 November 2026; Academic Research; Shaktism; Literary and Visual Representations

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Studies stereotyped portrayals of Indian religions in American Golden Age comics. The sustained Kali discussion on pp. 187–189 analyzes horror narratives and their colonial and literary antecedents. Descriptions of Kali as murderous are the comic creators’ representations, not established facts about the goddess or devotees.

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“Land of Strange Gods and Cruel Practices of Antiquity”. Depictions of Indian Religious Systems in the Golden Age of American Comic Books

Marcin Ciemniewski. Studia Religiologica 58(2) (2025), pp. 173–195. Publisher landing page labels issue publication December 2025.

KLM000121 | Scholarly journal article; final published version | English

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Marcin Ciemniewski. “Land of Strange Gods and Cruel Practices of Antiquity”. Depictions of Indian Religious Systems in the Golden Age of American Comic Books. Studia Religiologica 58(2) (2025), pp. 173–195. Publisher landing page labels issue publication December 2025. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/e1e1d420-c845-4336-8ee4-c84fff266680/content

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