How Can Satan Cast Out Satan? Violence and the Birth of the Sacred in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight

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Research Article| May 01 2013 How Can Satan Cast Out Satan? Violence and the Birth of the Sacred in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Nicholas Bott Nicholas Bott Stanford University, Stanford, and Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California NICHOLAS BOTT received a B.A. in International Relations at Stanford University, California, with a concentration in the psychology of religious and political violence. He received a Master of Divinity in 2009 and has served in a variety of pastoral positions during the past seven years in the Bay Area, Chicago, and Kansas City. Nick is currently a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, Palo Alto University, California. His academic interests include interdisciplinary neuroscience and neuropsychology, the role of imitation and modeling in psychological awareness and spiritual development, and the intertextual use of imitation and modeling in Scripture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (2013) 20: 239–252. https://doi.org/10.14321/contagion.20.2013.0239 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Bott; How Can Satan Cast Out Satan? Violence and the Birth of the Sacred in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture 1 May 2013; 20 239–252. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/contagion.20.2013.0239 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressContagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.