Understanding Theology and Popular Culture

Understanding Theology and Popular Culture
Author: Gordon Lynch
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781405117487

Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is one of the first books to give an overview of the key issues and methods in this field of study. Provides a detailed introduction to key theories and debates in popular cultural studies Presents a reasoned argument about the distinctive contribution that theology can make to the study of popular culture Illustrated through a range of original case studies, from Eminem to The Simpsons Suitable for both beginning students and more advanced researchers. The author has created the Theology and Popular Culture Gateway which is one of the first academic Internet gateways for the study of theology and contemporary culture.

Understanding Religion and Popular Culture

Understanding Religion and Popular Culture
Author: Terry Ray Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0415781043

This introductory text provides students with an extremely useful 'toolbox' of approaches for analyzing religion and popular culture.

Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition
Author: Bruce David Forbes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520965221

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

The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture

The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture
Author: Kelton Cobb
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005
Genre: Popular culture
ISBN: 9781784020606

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, television shows and advertising. A timely examination and contribution to the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture Locates the theological analysis of culture alongside political, sociological, economic, aesthetic and psychological analyses Surveys the work of religious and theological scholars who have turned their attention to popular culture Considers classic Christian thinkers who have wrestled with culture, such as St. Paul, Tertullian, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Ricoeur Proposes a method for analysing culture to discern its religious content Identifies religious themes in popular culture Uses illustrations, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby to Six Feet Under. An appendix provides lists of films, novels, television series, consumer products, architectural works, cultural events, and corporate icons that lend themselves to theological analysis.

René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture

René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture
Author: Ryan G. Duns
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781978710108

René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture provides a fresh and engaging introduction to and the application of René Girard's mimetic theory. From movies to social media, television to graphic novels, the contributors explore popular culture's theological depths and challenge readers to consider what culture reveals about them.

Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis)

Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis)
Author: Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441200495

Everyday theology is the reflective and practical task of living each day as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. In other words, theology is not just for Sundays, and it's not just for professional theologians. Everyday Theology teaches all Christians how to get the theological lay of the land. It enables them to become more conscious of the culture they inhabit every day so that they can understand how it affects them and how they can affect it. If theology is the ministry of the Word to the world, everyday theologians need to know something about that world, and Everyday Theology shows them how to understand their culture make an impact on it. Engaging and full of fresh young voices, this book is the first in the new Cultural Exegesis series.

Theology and Spider-Man

Theology and Spider-Man
Author: George Tsakiridis
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781978710894

Engaging themes of sin, salvation, and creedal theology, the contributors to Theology and Spider-Man create a systematic and constructive theology of one of Marvel's most popular heroes.

Popologetics

Popologetics
Author: Ted Turnau
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Apologetics
ISBN: 9781596383890

It's everywhere...all around us...so widespread it's almost part of the air we breathe. Some people love it, some people hate it, and some try to shrug it off or pretend it's not there. But, like it or not, notice it or not, popular culture plays a huge role in our day-to-day lives, often influencing the way we think and see the world. Some people respond by trying to pull away from it altogether, and some accept it without question as a blessing. But Ted Turnau reminds us that the issue is not so black-and-white. Popular culture, like any other facet of society, is a messy mixture of both grace and idolatry, and it deserves our serious attention and discernment. Learn how to approach popular culture wisely, separating its gems of grace from its temptations toward idolatry, and practice some popologetics to be an influence of your own. Book jacket.

Theology and Horror

Theology and Horror
Author: Brandon R. Grafius
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781978708006

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought - questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place in the universe, the distribution of justice, and what it means to live a good life, among many others. Such exploration often involves a theological conversation. Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination pursues questions regarding non-physical realities, spaces where both divinity and horror dwell. Through an exploration of theology and horror, the contributors explore how questions of spirituality, divinity, and religious structures are raised, complicated, and even sometimes answered (at least partially) by works of horror.

The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture

The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture
Author: Kelton Cobb
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0470777702

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, television shows and advertising. A timely examination and contribution to the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture Locates the theological analysis of culture alongside political, sociological, economic, aesthetic and psychological analyses Surveys the work of religious and theological scholars who have turned their attention to popular culture Considers classic Christian thinkers who have wrestled with culture, such as St. Paul, Tertullian, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Ricoeur Proposes a method for analysing culture to discern its religious content Identifies religious themes in popular culture Uses illustrations, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby to Six Feet Under An appendix provides lists of films, novels, television series, consumer products, architectural works, cultural events, and corporate icons that lend themselves to theological analysis.