ISBN:
0415485363
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0415485371
,
9780415801942
,
9780415485364
,
9780415485371
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 331 p)
,
ill
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version God in the Details : American Religion in Popular Culture
DDC:
306.60973
Keywords:
Popular culture
;
United States Religion 1960-
Abstract:
Exploring the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth and persistence of religious themes in the American consciousness. This new edition reflects the explosion of online activity since the first edition, including chapters on the spiritual implications of social networking sites, and the hazy line between real and virtual religious life in the online community Second Life. Also new to this edition are chapters on the migration of black male expression from churches to athletic stadiums, new configurations of the sacred and
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Finding Religion in American Popular Culture; Part I: Popular myth and symbol; Chapter 1 Deliver Me from Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen and the Myth of the American Promised Land; Chapter 2 "I Wanna Do Bad Things With You": Fantasia on Themes of American Religion from the Title Sequence of HBO's True Blood; Chapter 3 A Fire in the Sky: "Apocalyptic" Themes on the Silver Screen; Chapter 4 Sexuality, Blasphemy, and Iconoclasm in the Media Age: The Strange Case of the Buddha Bikini
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Popular ritualChapter 5 Blood in the Barbecue?: Food and Faith in the American South; Chapter 6 Rituals of the African American Domus: Church, Community, Sport, and LeBron James; Chapter 7 Dropping in for the Holidays: Christmas as Commercial Ritual at the Precious Moments Chapel; Chapter 8 Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art: Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival; Part III: Popular spirituality and morality; Chapter 9 Is God Still in the Box?: Religion in Television Cop Shows Ten Years Later
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 Don't Act Now!: Selling Christian Abstinence in the Religious MarketplaceChapter 11 When "Friend" Becomes a Verb: Religion on the Social Web; Chapter 12 Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons; Part IV: Popular "Churches"; Chapter 13 The Thin Line between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Meaning and Community among Jimmy Buffett's Parrotheads; Chapter 14 Our Lady of Persistent Liminality: Virtual Church, Cyberspace, and Second Life; Chapter 15 Rap Music, Hip-Hop Culture, and "The Future Religion of the World"
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 16 The Happiest Place on Earth: Disney's America and the Commodification of ReligionIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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