Religion and popular culture in America /edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan.

Name/Title

Religion and popular culture in America /edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan.

Description

The Oriental monk in American popular culture / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Consecrating consumer culture: Christmas television specials / Robert J. Thompson -- From American dream to American horizon: the religious dimensions in Louis L'Amour and Cormac McCarthy / Terry C. Muck -- Like a sermon: popular religion in Madonna videos / Mark D. Hulsether -- Evangelicals and popular music: the contemporary Christian music industry / William D. Romanowski -- The electronic golden calf: transforming ritual and icon / Gregor Goethals -- The cross at Willow Creek: seeker religion and the contemporary marketplace / Stewart M. Hoover -- It's about faith in our future: Star trek fandom as cultural religion / Michael Jindra -- Losing their way to salvation: women, weight loss, and the salvation myth of culture lite / Michelle M. Lelwica -- An American apotheosis: sports as popular religion / Joseph L. Price -- The church of baseball, the fetish of Coca-Cola, and the potlatch of rock 'n' roll / David Chidester -- The disguise of vengeance in Pale rider / Robert Jewett -- Rap music and its message: on interpreting the contact between religion and popular culture / Anthony Pinn -- Lost in cyberspace? Gender, difference, and the Internet "utopia" / Meredith Underwood -- Conclusion: establishing a dialogue about religion and popular culture / Jeffrey H. Mahan. xi, 324 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

Berkeley, Calif.

Date Published

circa 2000

Publication Subjects

Popular culture--Religious aspects. Religion and culture--United States.

Call No.

BL2525 .R4613 2000

ISBN

0520213246 (cloth : alk. paper), 0520220285 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99032106

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.