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Author(s): Bruce David Forbes (editor); Jeffrey H. Mahan (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780520965225, 0520965221
File Details: PDF, 2.37 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520965221
ISBN 13: 9780520965225 
Author: Bruce David Forbes, Jeffrey H. Mahan

The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.
 
Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume

  • gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture
  • provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives
  • contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools

Religion and Popular Culture in America Third Table of contents:

PART I. RELIGION IN POPULAR CULTURE

1. The Origin(s) of Superman: Reimagining Religion in the Man of Steel

2. The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture

3. Adventure Time and Sacred History: Myth and Reality in Children’s Animated Cartoons

4. Monstrous Muslims: Historical Anxieties and Future Trends

5. The Weight of the World: Religion and Heavy Metal Music in Four Cases

PART II. POPULAR CULTURE IN RELIGION

6. Christmas Is Like a Snowball

7. Mipsterz: Hip, American, and Muslim

8. Megachurches, Celebrity Pastors, and the Evangelical Industrial Complex

9. People of the Picture Book: PJ Library and American Jewish Religion

10. Meditation on the Go: Buddhist Smartphone Apps as Video Game Play

PART III. POPULAR CULTURE AS RELIGION

11. It’s About Faith in Our Future: Star Trek Fandom as Cultural Religion

12. Shopping, Religion, and the Sacred “Buyosphere” Sarah McFarland Taylor

13. Losing Their Way to Salvation: Women, Weight Loss, and the Religion of Thinness

14. The “Godding Up” of American Sports

15. Celebrity Worship as Parareligion: Bieber and the Beliebers

PART IV. RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE IN DIALOGUE

16. Yoga in Popular Culture: Controversies and Conflicts

17. Mirror, Mirror on Ourselves: Disney as a Site of Religio-Cultural Dialogue

18. Can Watching a Movie Be a Spiritual Experience?

19. Rap Music and Its Message: On Interpreting the Contact between Religion and Popular Culture

20. Broadswords and Face Paint: Why Braveheart Still Matters

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