"The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music
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, television shows and advertising. Includes information on apocalypticism, Augustine, Accenture, Apple, Google, McDonalds, MTV, Starbucks, bricolage, confession, Disney, Dogma (film), existentialism, commodity fetishism, God, the Gothic, guilt, the holy, idols and idolatry, Jesus Christ, Immanuel Kant, The Life of God (as Told by Himself), Friedrich Nietzsche, divine providence, Puritans and puritanism, religious symbols, sin, Six Feet Under (HBO series), Paul Tillich, tattoos, body piercings and scarification, simularum, etc." (Publisher description)
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"[This book] puts basic skills of cultural analysis into the hands of ordinary persons, particularly those who gather with others guided by a religious tradition to worship God. These skills include: a rehtinking of the word culture itself; finding the usually anonymous names and faces behind any el
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ectronic communication; understanding how culture is produced; skill in decoding the iconic images we see and the metaphoric images by which we see; the ability to evaluate what we see and hear; new forms of personal and communal agency." (Back cover)
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"The growing connections between media, culture and religion are increasingly evident in contemporary society, but until now have rarely been theoretically linked. The contributors to this volume effectively combine these areas into a coherent whole. The issues they examine include: the decline of r
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eligious institutions during the late twentieth century; the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion; and the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices." (Publisher description)
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"Ausführlichst behandelt werden die amerikanischen und frankobelgischen Klassiker, während die Entwicklung des amerikanischen Undergrounds, der nordeuropäischen Szene oder Japans nur oberflächlich nachgezeichnet sind [...] Als Nachschlagewerk kann das chronologisch gegliederte, reich illustriert
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e Buch durchaus wertvolle Dienste leisten." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8./9.2.1997)
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