Harker very specifically expresses his discomfort with Catholic artifacts in the first chapter, and I’d argue that Van Healing’s role is largely to disguise the essential Catholicism of what they do under the veneer of pseudoscience.
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Yes, absolutely. All of this is explicit in Stoker (and indeed in The Exorcist). But it gets more and more implicit, unacknowledged, and eventually obscure in the 20th c in general and the US in particular.
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The waning of doctrinal identity as a feature of Christianity does pose problems, yes.
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Perhaps your London tension includes Stoker's own "foreignness" (Irish) and his Catholicism in the decades of the Home Rule movement.
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Its simply impossible for a demon or vampire hunter to be protestant if for no other reason than the lack of a costume
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Vampires did not start with Stoker! Vampire lore originates in the Catholic/Orthodox Habsburg borders in the eighteenth century. Catholic Habsburg officers and bureaucrats view vampirism as Orthodox superstition.
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By coincidence, I just watched a documentary about this *exact* topic yesterday, and came in here to make the same point.
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You might want to check out the 2000’s-era manga called “Hellsing”. The Hellsing Organization apparently uses specially blessed bullets - and the Catholic Department XIII (aka The Iscariot Organization) doesn’t like them at all…
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I should warn you though, I’ve been Catholic, and I’ve been Protestant, and the Japanese idea of what Christians are all about is… startling.

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