Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third EditionBruce David Forbes, Jeffrey H. Mahan "Since 2000, Religion and Popular Culture in America has been one [of the] standard books used in teaching this area of study. Modestly updated in 2005, it continues to be taught in colleges, universities and theological schools across the continent. The basic four-part structure of Religion and Popular Culture in America remains sound and is a feature that appeals to many who have taught the volume. Section One, Religion in Popular Culture, examines the way traditional religious symbols, narratives, and forms of religious practice appear in popular culture. Section Two, Popular Culture in Religion, considers how religion takes on and is reshaped by styles and values of popular culture. Section Three, Popular Culture as Religion, explores the ways that aspects of popular culture and their reception might be considered to be forms of religion. Section Four, Religion and Popular Culture in Dialogue, introduces religiously based critiques of popular culture and ways that popular culture articulates common critiques of religion. The third edition maintains the structure and basic length of the current edition and retains Forbes' introductory framework and update versions of key essay. But they replace many of the more dated subjects with new material drawing on more contemporary examples. A concluding essay by Mahan organizes key insights from the essays and relates them to the theories of popular culture illuminated in the introduction"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents
between Religion and Popular Culture | 11 |
Religion in the Man of Steel | 33 |
The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture | 51 |
Myth | 71 |
Sophia Rose Arjana | 85 |
Religion and Heavy Metal Music | 100 |
Christmas Is Like a Snowball | 127 |
Hip American and Muslim | 144 |
Sarah McFarland Taylor | 242 |
Women Weight Loss | 262 |
The Godding Up of American Sports | 288 |
Bieber and the Beliebers | 313 |
RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE IN DIALOGUE | 329 |
Controversies and Conflicts | 337 |
of ReligioCultural Dialogue | 351 |
Robert K Johnston | 373 |
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