BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Billington, Ray. Religion Without God, Routledge, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/lib/mun/detail.action?docID=180060. Accessed 2 February 2020.
This book explores the need for God to be the pivotal center of a religious institution. It challenges the assumption that religious organizations are the de facto authority on spirituality and investigates how religious experience can be familiar even when no creed is present. This source will be used to investigate the authoritarian regime of the Magisterium as well as investigate Lyra’s relationship with her environment, her goodness and morals with no God explicitly present in her world.
Cantrell, Sarah. “‘Nothing Like Pretend’: Difference, Disorder, and Dystopia in The Multiple World Spaces of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.” Children's Literature in Education, vol. 41, no. 4, 2010, pp. 302–322. doi-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/10.1007/s10583-010-9112-1. Accessed 30 January 2020.
This article explores the themes of chance and destiny on the protagonists, how their choices reflect their journey and force the reader to reflect on their place in the universe. This source will be used to explore the prophetic themes in the HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials.
Cowburn, John. Free Will, Predestination, & Determinism, Marquette University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/lib/mun/detail.action?docID=476970. Accessed 2 February 2020
The book explains determinism to be a philosophical theory that all future events are fixed due to previously existing causes. Prophecy and predestination are measured against the choices and free will consequences of the protagonist's actions.
Duke, Barrett. “10 biblical truths about animals.” Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, 5 Jan. 2015, erlc.com/resource-library/articles/10-biblical-truths-about-animals. Accessed February 23, 2020
A look at what Christian Baptists believe regarding animals and humans' role as stewards of all God's creations.
“His Dark Materials Wiki: Daemons”. Fandom. hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/D%C3%A6mon. Accessed 31 January 2020.
A source for fan theories and meta-commentary on all questions related to daemons in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy and beyond.
“His Dark Materials: Magisterium, Dust, Daemons, Bears & the Alethiometer Explained.” YouTube, uploaded by io9, 11 December 2019, youtu.be/a9t3xhJwXGM. Accessed 28 January 2020.
Season one synopsis of the television show His Dark Materials on HBO.
Miller, Laura. “Far from Narnia: Phillip Pullman’s secular fantasy for children.” The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/26/far-from-narnia. Accessed 23 January 2020.
This article explores the differences between the coldness of the world lead by an authoritarian regime called the Magisterium in His Dark Materials and the fanciful world crafted by C. S. Lewis in the Chronicles of Narnia. This article will be used to draw parallels between the world of His Dark Materials and the real-world examples of monolithic religious institutions and government.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost, Oxford University Press, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/lib/mun/reader.action?docID=422470. Accessed 28 January 2020.
This poem acted as inspiration for much of the source material. I will analyze events of the HBO television adaptation of His Dark Materials and compare them to Milton’s epic poem in an attempt to understand the place that Pullman writes from. In particular, the choices made by the book's main characters concerning prophecy and destiny.
Padley, Jonathan, and Kenneth Padley. ‘A Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven’: His Dark Materials, Inverted Theology, and the End of Philip Pullman’s Authority. Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 325–334. doi-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/10.1007/s10583-006-9022-4. Accessed 31 January 2020.
This article asserts that the Godless worldbuilding by Pullman is an attempt to destroy theology, however, he succeeds in the exact opposite creating a world that succeeds in displaying man’s fight against the devil rather than his intended motive of man’s fight against theology. This source will be used to identify many religious parallels and themes present through the HBO adaptation including themes of destiny and the church's absolute authority.
Parker, James. “Philip Pullman’s Problem With God.” The Atlantic, Nov. 2019, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/can-atheism-animate-great-fantasy/598351/. Accessed 4 February 2020.
This article looks at the atheism present in Phillip Pullman’s writings including his hatred for the “bloody church.” This source will help identify the darker aspects of the world in His Dark Materials and relay it to current social understandings of religious imagery present in the HBO television series.
Pullman, Phillip. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
This is the source material for the HBO, in association with BBC, television adaptation.
Robinson, Karen D. "His Dark Materials: A Look into Pullman's Interpretation of Milton's Paradise Lost," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, Article 1. 15 Oct. 2004, dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1259&context=mythlore. Accessed February 23, 2020
An in-depth comparison of Phillip Pullmans His Dark Materials to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Explores ideas of duality and other concepts from Milton’s Paradise Lost that influenced Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy
Shoemaker, Sydney. “Personal identity” Encyclopædia Britannica, inc, 3 Mar. 2017, www.britannica.com/topic/personal-identity. Accessed 28 February 2020.
A philosophical look at personal identity and self concept including an examination into the self, immaterial substance theories and traditional criticism.
Spark Notes. Barns and Nobel. www.sparknotes.com/lit/hisdarkmaterials/character/lyra-belacqua/. Accesses March 2, 2020
A synopsis of the character Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials.
Thorne, Jack and Dan McCulloch, executive producer. His Dark Materials. Home Box Office and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.
This first season of HBO’s television series is an adaption of Phillip Pullman’s first book, The Golden Compass in the book series, His Dark Materials.
Thurow, Joshua. C. “Animals with Soul.” Sophia, vol. 57(1), March 2018, pp. 85–101, doi-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/10.1007/s11841-017-0633-6. Accessed 2 February 2020.
This article argues that humans and animals have immaterial souls and that ensouled animalism is a superior theory to its two largest rivals, dualism and materialistic animalism and that adopting this theory strengthens the arguments that humans have immaterial souls. This article will support the idea that animals possess souls, and of demons being the animal manifestation of a human soul that exists outside the body.
“Villains wiki”. Fandom. www.villains.fandom.com/wiki/The_Church_(His_Dark_Materials). Accessed 4 February 2020.
A source for fan theories, back story and meta-commentary on characters, locations, events and questions related to the villains in "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
Walsh, Michael. “His Dark Materials: What is the Magisterium?” Nerdist, 14 Aug. 2019, www.nerdist.com/article/his-dark-materials-magisterium. Accessed 2 February 2020.
This article explains a brief history of catholic church and when the world of his dark materials diverged from our reality. It also explores the foundation for the magisterium’s authority and the current vastness of their control.
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His Dark Materials (Original Television Soundtrack)