After reading Arkham’s Souls, we hope you take away three broad implications….One pertains to the importance of knowledge from various disciplines combining to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The second concerns the potential pedagogical and scholarly opportunities such an analysis affords and the interdisciplinary collaborations it can engender. Lastly, we hope that the volume encourages thoughtful, good-faith reflections and discussions concerning what it means to live meaningfully in a society with others.

These features are explored through analyses rooted in three distinct disciplines and applied to three superheroes whose narratives are often rooted in the communities in which they live: sociology (Daredevil and Hell’s Kitchen), psychology (Black Panther and Wakanda), and citizenship education (Batman and Gotham).

...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.