Batman (2020)

Martin, J. F. (2020). God and Gotham?: Batman narratives as potential for theological reflection. Theology, Religion, and Popular Culture Review, 2, 7-11.

• Treating Gotham as a central character within Batman narratives affords opportunities to explore psychological and theological considerations.

• This exploration can be grounded in a theory of social and moral development that distinguishes our understandings of morality from our understandings of social systems and persons. 

“...by analyzing Batman narratives through the lens of…the existence of distinct domains of social concepts and the importance of coordination to navigate situations with competing concepts or considerations…and centering Gotham as the primary unit of analysis, opportunities for reflecting on the relationship between understandings of God and understandings of the social world may become apparent.”