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In the animated film The Incredibles (dir. Bird, 2004), we are shown a time in which superheroes are forced to go underground. As more and more people sue the government for the accidental damage and injury incurred by the heroes’ attempts to stave off various disasters, the decision is taken to make their “secret identity their only identity.” Like mutant marranos, the supers have to don the guise of normal folk.
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Kenneth Surin, “Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject” in ed. Creston Davis, John Milbank, and Slavoj Žižek, Theology and the Political: The New Debate (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 240–66
Stewart Sutherland, God, Jesus and Belief (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)
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Shakespeare, S. (2015). Conclusion: Theology for Creatures. In: Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382955_9
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