Religion and Popular Culture in America - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0520213246 ISBN 13: 9780520213241

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2000

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The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer", from televangelism to the world of sports, this book's contributors offer fascinating insights into what popular culture reveals about the nature of American religion today. Bruce David Forbes provides an introductory essay that states the book's organizing principles. The first group of essays examines the appearance of explicit religious content or implicit religious themes in popular culture, focusing on such particulars as Christmas television specials and the fiction of Louis L'Amour and Cormac McCarthy.The second group of essays considers ways that popular culture influences traditional religions, especially evangelical Christianity. A third group illustrates how aspects of popular culture develop their own myths, symbol systems, and ritual patterns; included are discussions of "Star Trek" fandom, women's weight loss rituals, and sports. The fourth group offers examples of ways that religion and popular culture might critique each another: the disguise of vengeance in "Pale Rider", rap music's take on African-American Christian theology, and a Christian feminist perspective on the role of gender in cyberspace. Jeffrey H Mahan's concluding essay looks at the academic and general audiences engaged in discussions of social and cultural reform.

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0520213246
• ISBN 13: 9780520213241
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Redattore: Forbes Bruce David, Mahan Jeffrey H.