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Secular Steeples 2nd Edition

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441172866
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Secular Steeples 2nd Edition written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Collaboration, resistance, and co-belligerency were only some of the short-term consequences. Each country's historiography has undergone enormous changes in the seventy years since the invasion, and this collection by leading historians examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression as well as the long-term legacies for each country's self-image and national identity. The Scandinavian countries' war experience fundamentally changed how each nation functioned in the post-war world by altering political structures, the dynamics of their societies, the inter-relationships between the countries and the popular view of the wartime political and social responses to totalitarian threats. Hitler was no respecter of the rights of the Scandinavian nations but he and his associates dealt surprisingly differently with each of them. In the post-war period, this has caused problems of interpretation for political and cultural historians alike. Drawing on the latest research, this volume will be a welcome addition to the comparative histories of Scandinavia and the Second World War.

Secular Steeples 2nd edition

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183418
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Secular Steeples 2nd edition written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of secularization in America, this book provides students with an innovative way of understanding the relationship between religion and secular culture. In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. Moving away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues, Ostwalt identifies areas of popular culture where secular and sacred views and objectives interact and enrich each other. The book demonstrates how religious institutions use the secular and popular media of television, movies, and music to make sacred teachings relevant. From megachurches to sports arenas, the Bible to Harry Potter, biker churches to virtual worship communities, Ostwalt demonstrates how religion persists across cultural forms, secular and sacred, with secular culture expressing religious messages and sometimes containing more authentic religious content than official religious teachings. An ideal text for anyone studying religion and popular culture, each chapter provides questions for discussion, a list of important terms and guided readings.

Secular Steeples

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1563383616
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Secular Steeples written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Ostwalt explores the confluence of religion and popular cultural forms in the secular world, demonstrating that a secular religiosity has co-opted some of the functions previously reserved for religions institutions.

Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

Author : Conrad Eugene Ostwalt
Publisher : Trinity Press International
ISBN 13 : 9780567349378
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination by : Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

Download or read book Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination written by Conrad Eugene Ostwalt and published by Trinity Press International. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative volume, Conrad Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, but rather that it shifts the authority to express religious ideals from the traditional, institutional church to other cultural entities, such as government and media. Religious institutions already use popular secular media like television, movies, and mass-market music to make teachings relevant. When religious institutions no longer dominate culture, they lose their grip on striving for the Sacred, the author says, and their messages find other outlets. As a result, today's secular culture may in fact contain more authentic religious content than official church teachings.

Protests as Events

Author : Ian R. Lamond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783480785
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Protests as Events written by Ian R. Lamond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.

Understanding Religion and Popular Culture

Author : Dan W. Clanton Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136316043
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Religion and Popular Culture written by Dan W. Clanton Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory text provides students with a 'toolbox' of approaches for analyzing religion and popular culture. It encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious ideas, themes, and values. The chapters feature lively and contemporary case study material and outline relevant theory and methods for analysis. Among the areas covered are religion and food, violence, music, television and videogames. Each entry is followed by a helpful summary, glossary, bibliography, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading/viewing. Understanding Religion and Popular Culture offers a valuable entry point into an exciting and rapidly evolving field of study.

From Mounds to Megachurches

Author : David Salter Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820336381
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book From Mounds to Megachurches written by David Salter Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping overview of the role religion, especially diverse denominations of Christianity, has played in Georgia's history, from pre-colonial days to the modern era, uses the stories of important figures to portray larger historical narratives and denominational battles.

The Rise of the Global South

Author : Elijah Jong Fil Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610979702
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Global South written by Elijah Jong Fil Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Christianity has been experiencing an unprecedented historical transition from the West to the non-Western world. The leadership of global Christianity has taken on a new face since the twentieth century. Christendom in Europe and America has experienced a great decline while there has been a rise in Majority World Christianity. Churches in the Global South have given their voices to global Christianity through their leadership, world mission movements, and theology. The phenomenal church growth has risen from the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Pentecostalism has become the dominant force in global Christianity today. The Rise of the Global South examines the significance this shift has had on global Christianity by going through the history of Christianity in the West and the causes of the shift.

Cinema and Secularism

Author : Mark Cauchi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150138886X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Secularism written by Mark Cauchi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and Secularism is the first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing a number of different methodological approaches to examine their identification and differentiation across film theory, film aesthetics, film history, and throughout global cinema. The emergence of moving images and the history of cinema historically coincide with the emergence of secularism as a concept and discourse. More than historically coinciding, however, cinema and secularism would seem to have-and many contemporary theorists and critics seem to assume-a more intrinsic, almost ontological connection to each other. While early film theorists and critics explicitly addressed questions about secularism, religion, and cinema, once the study of film was professionalized and secularized in the Western academy in both film studies and religious studies, explicit and critical attention to the relationship between cinema and secularism rapidly declined. Indeed, if one canvases film scholarship today, one will find barely any works dedicated to thinking critically about the relationship between cinema and secularism. Extending the recent “secular turn” in the humanities and social sciences, Cinema and Secularism provokes critical reflection on its titular concepts. Making contributions to theory, philosophy, criticism, and history, the chapters in this pioneering volume collectively interrogate the assumption that cinema is secular, how secularism is conceived and related to cinema differently in different film cultures, and whether the world is disenchanted or enchanted in cinema. Coming from intellectually diverse backgrounds in film studies, religious studies, and philosophy, the interdisciplinary contributors to this book cover films and traditions of thought from America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. In these ways, Cinema and Secularism opens new areas of inquiry in the study of film and contributes to the ongoing interrogation of secularism more broadly.

Understanding Religion and Popular Culture

Author : Elizabeth Rae Coody
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000852377
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Religion and Popular Culture written by Elizabeth Rae Coody and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Religion and Popular Culture 2nd edition provides an accessible introduction to this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Divided into two parts, Issues in Religion and Genres in Popular Culture, it encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious ideas, themes, and values. This edition has been thoroughly revised and includes five new chapters, updated case studies, and contemporary references. Among the areas covered are religion and film, food, violence, music, television, cosplay, and fandom. Each chapter also includes a helpful summary, glossary, bibliography, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading/viewing. Providing a set of practical and theoretical tools for learning and research, this book is an essential read for all students of Religion and Popular Culture, or Religion and Media more broadly.

Bible In/and Popular Culture

Author : Philip Culbertson
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589834933
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Bible In/and Popular Culture written by Philip Culbertson and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular culture, the Bible is generally associated with films: The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Montreal, and many others. Less attention has been given to the relationship between the Bible and other popular media such as hip-hop, reggae, rock, and country and western music; popular and graphic novels; animated television series; and apocalyptic fantasy. This collection of essays explores a range of media and the way the Bible features in them, applying various hermeneutical approaches, engaging with critical theory, and providing conceptual resources and examples of how the Bible reads popular culture—and how popular culture reads the Bible. This useful resource will be of interest for both biblical and cultural studies. The contributors are Elaine M. Wainwright, Michael Gilmour, Mark McEntire, Dan W. Clanton Jr., Philip Culbertson, Jim Perkinson, Noel Leo Erskine, Tex Sample, Roland Boer, Terry Ray Clark, Steve Taylor, Tina Pippin, Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, Caroline Vander Stichele, and Erin Runions.

The Re-Enchantment of the West

Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567108945
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Re-Enchantment of the West written by Christopher Partridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion, which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu. Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment. Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West.

A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson

Author : Adam Barkman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666937746
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson written by Adam Barkman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson’s work, treating this prolific but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher. From The Man Without a Face and Braveheart to The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge, this interdisciplinary collection mines Gibson’s life and oeuvre for insight into existential problems, Aristotelian virtues, the politics of film, interreligious dialogue, adaptation issues, and much more.

The Catholic Encyclopedia

Author : Charles George Herbermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles George Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen & Amateurs

Author : Sir Banister Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen & Amateurs written by Sir Banister Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catholic Encyclopedia

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: