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Monumental Jesus : landscapes of faith and doubt in modern America / Margaret M. Grubiak

Grubiak, Margaret M. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020

xviii, 194 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

2003

Erscheint auch als: Grubiak, Margaret M : Monumental jesus. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8139-4374-9 (cloth)

978-0-8139-4375-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2019036808

OCoLC: 1236423236     

LO 96620  | LO 96660      Ähnliche Literatur

BR115.C8

306.6/773

Basisklassifikation: 56.88 (Sakralbau) <Architektur> ; 21.52 (Geschichte der Bildhauerei)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-KUNST-DE-14

*USA ; Religiöse Kunst ; Architektur ; Monumentalplastik      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Christianity and culture -- United States ; Cultural landscapes -- United States ; Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity ; United States -- Religion

Touchdown Jesus! -- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz, and the Mormon Temple -- Adventures in the evangelical theme park -- Charles Darwin's Night at the Creation Museum -- Gumby Jesus.

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"This book explores how religious doubt is made manifest in the built environment by taking seriously the humorous, satirical, blasphemous, and popular culture responses to religious architecture and image in modern America. It challenges how audiences typically consider religious architecture by shifting the focus from believers to doubters and from architectural producers to architectural consumers. Its chapters explore landscapes of doubt created by "Touchdown Jesus" at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana; the Mormon temple outside Washington, D.C., recast as something from The Wizard of Oz; Jerry Falwell's waterslide plunge photograph and The Simpson's "Praiseland" episode satirizing Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA evangelical theme park in South Carolina; the doctored photograph making fun of Oral Roberts's claim of seeing a 900-foot Jesus at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; MAD magazine's "Charles Darwin's Night at the Creation Museum" parody of the Creation Museum in Kentucky; and the "Gumby Jesus" renaming of the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. These expressions of doubt activate the religious built environment in ways unanticipated but illuminating, asking Americans to consider and clarify what it is they believe"--