God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]
This contributed two-volume work tackles a fascinating topic: how and why God plays a central role in the modern world and profoundly influences politics, art, culture, and our moral reflection—even for nonbelievers.

God—in the many ways that people around the globe conceptualize Him, Her, or It—is one of the most powerful, divisive, unifying, and creative elements of human culture. The two volumes of God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure provide readers with a balanced and accessible analysis of this fascinating topic that allows anyone who appreciates any art, music, television, film, and other forms of entertainment to have a new perspective on a favorite song or movie.

Written by a collective of both believers and nonbelievers, the essays enable both nonreligious individuals and those who are spiritually guided to consider how culture approaches and has appropriated God to reveal truths about humanity and society. The book discusses the intersections of God with film, television, sports, politics, commerce, and popular culture, thereby documenting how the ongoing messages and conversations about God that occur among the general population also occur within the context of the entertainment that we as members of society consume—often without our recognition of the discussion.
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God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]
This contributed two-volume work tackles a fascinating topic: how and why God plays a central role in the modern world and profoundly influences politics, art, culture, and our moral reflection—even for nonbelievers.

God—in the many ways that people around the globe conceptualize Him, Her, or It—is one of the most powerful, divisive, unifying, and creative elements of human culture. The two volumes of God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure provide readers with a balanced and accessible analysis of this fascinating topic that allows anyone who appreciates any art, music, television, film, and other forms of entertainment to have a new perspective on a favorite song or movie.

Written by a collective of both believers and nonbelievers, the essays enable both nonreligious individuals and those who are spiritually guided to consider how culture approaches and has appropriated God to reveal truths about humanity and society. The book discusses the intersections of God with film, television, sports, politics, commerce, and popular culture, thereby documenting how the ongoing messages and conversations about God that occur among the general population also occur within the context of the entertainment that we as members of society consume—often without our recognition of the discussion.
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God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]

God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]

God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]

God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]

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This contributed two-volume work tackles a fascinating topic: how and why God plays a central role in the modern world and profoundly influences politics, art, culture, and our moral reflection—even for nonbelievers.

God—in the many ways that people around the globe conceptualize Him, Her, or It—is one of the most powerful, divisive, unifying, and creative elements of human culture. The two volumes of God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure provide readers with a balanced and accessible analysis of this fascinating topic that allows anyone who appreciates any art, music, television, film, and other forms of entertainment to have a new perspective on a favorite song or movie.

Written by a collective of both believers and nonbelievers, the essays enable both nonreligious individuals and those who are spiritually guided to consider how culture approaches and has appropriated God to reveal truths about humanity and society. The book discusses the intersections of God with film, television, sports, politics, commerce, and popular culture, thereby documenting how the ongoing messages and conversations about God that occur among the general population also occur within the context of the entertainment that we as members of society consume—often without our recognition of the discussion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216090946
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/11/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 656
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

The Reverend Stephen Butler Murray is president and professor of systematic theology and preaching at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit, MI.

Aimée Upjohn Light, PhD, is assistant professor of theology at Duquesne University and specializes in interreligious work and feminist theologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction Stephen Butler Murray and Aimée Upjohn Light
GOD AND SPORTS
Chapter One: Soccer Is My Religion, the Stadium Is My Church: Soccer and/as Religion
Rebecca A. Chabot with Jason Neal
Chapter Two: Cage Fighting for Jesus
Carmen Celestini
Chapter Three: Evangelical Fight Clubs and the Power of Religious Metaphor
B. J. Parker, Rebecca Whitten Poe Hays, and Nicholas R. Werse
Chapter Four: Python Wrassling: "Is God Really Real, or Is There Some Doubt?"Brian Cogan and Jeff Massey
GOD AND POLITICS AND COMMERCE
Chapter Five: God in the Well of the Senate
Jeremy G. Mallory
Chapter Six: The Evangelist and the Venture Capitalist: A Parable for the 21st Century
Robert Brancatelli
Chapter Seven: Ministering to the Spiritual Side of Trade: The Sacred Language of Advertising
Andris Berry
Chapter Eight: Theologizing Together: Media as Mediator of Meaning
Paula J. Lee
Chapter Nine: A Shared Critical Ethic for Media Images and Liturgy
Jann Cather Weaver
GOD AND POPULAR CULTURE
Chapter Ten: God in the Smartphone: Sacred or Sacrilege?
Joyce Ann Konigsburg
Chapter Eleven: "In Jesus Christ, the Medium and the Message Are Fully One and the Same": Deriving a Media Theology from the Works of Marshall McLuhan
David E. Beard and David Gore
Chapter Twelve: Poets: God's Prophets
Steven Berry
Chapter Thirteen: Finding God in Near-Death Experiences, Art, and Science
Paul H. Carr
Chapter Fourteen: Gods in Indian Popular Jokes
Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi
Chapter Fifteen: The Presence of the Cross in Popular Culture: A Womanist Perspective
Andriette Jordan-Fields
Chapter Sixteen: African Language, Drum, and Dance: Powerful Symbols of God's Saving Mystery
Guido Oliana
Chapter Seventeen: Puppetry and the Divine/Human Relationship
Carolyn D. Roark
Chapter Eighteen: Is There God at the End of Bill Viola's "Room for St. John of the Cross"?: The Via Negativa as an Aesthetic Experience
Carlos Vara Sánchez
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
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