A Charlie Brown Religion

Author : Stephen J. Lind
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496804693

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A Charlie Brown Religion by Stephen J. Lind Pdf

Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh, sigh, gasp, and ponder. A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming work--religion. Based on new archival research and original interviews with Schulz's family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. In his lifetime, aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist. Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorist's own complex, intense journey toward understanding God and faith. "There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people," Linus says, "Religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Yet with the support of religious communities, Schulz bravely defied convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the "funny pages," a secular, mainstream entertainment medium. This insightful, thorough study of the 17,897 Peanuts newspaper strips, seventy-five animated titles, and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe, what it means to doubt, and what it means to share faith with the world.

Author : Stephen J. Lind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1496814673

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A Charlie Brown Religion by Stephen J. Lind Pdf

The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts

Author : Blake Scott Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190090487

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Charlie Brown's America by Blake Scott Ball Pdf

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

Author : Robert L. Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:1408960833

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The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short Pdf

Author : Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0871625806

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I Take My Religion Seriously by Charles Monroe Schulz Pdf

Author : Robert L. Short
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664222226

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The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short Pdf

While Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have enjoyed the kind of success most cartoon characters can only dream about--becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members--Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies. This anniversary edition features a new cover, a new interior design, and a new foreword by Martin E. Marty. Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.

Author : Andrew Blauner
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781598536171

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The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Blauner Pdf

A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers, thirty-three writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting, affecting, and often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers—and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, “how to survive and still be a decent human being” in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate reader’s companion for every Peanuts fan. Featuring: Jill Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah Boxer Jennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell Rich Cohen Gerald Early Umberto Eco Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Adam Gopnik David Hajdu Bruce Handy David Kamp Maxine Hong Kingston Chuck Klosterman Peter D. Kramer Jonathan Lethem Rick Moody Ann Patchett Kevin Powell Joe Queenan Nicole Rudick George Saunders Elissa Schappell Seth Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris Ware

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604734485

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My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz Pdf

While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time. Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will serve as the touchstone for Schulz's thoughts and convictions and as a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional, extended memoir. Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist's entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist.

Author : Robert L. Short
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664251528

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Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts by Robert L. Short Pdf

Offers Christian interpretations of the basic philosophies embodied in the Peanuts cartoon strip

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191643842

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Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne Pdf

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481436069

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Time for School, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz Pdf

Preparing for his first day of school, an anxious Charlie Brown searches for the confidence to stop fretting and have a great year. Simultaneous and eBook.

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781449451776

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Charlie Brown and Friends by Charles M. Schulz Pdf

Charles Schulz's Peanuts is one of the most timeless and beloved comic strips ever. In this second book of the series, the gang's all here and getting into classic Peanuts hijinks. Whether it's the dynamic duo of Snoopy and Woodstock, or the never-ending crush that Peppermint Patty has on Charlie Brown, the gang's interactions are the heart of strip and will resonate with kids for years to come.

Author : Charles M. Schulz,Vicki Scott
Publisher : KaBOOM!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1608862704

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Peanuts It's Tokyo, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz,Vicki Scott Pdf

The Peanuts gang touches down in Tokyo! Charlie Brown and Snoopy lead the charge as the gang’s baseball team is selected for an international tournament in Japan. The Peanuts gang hops on a plane to Japan when their Little League team is chosen to represent the United States in an international baseball game in Tokyo! Between seeing the sights and taking in the best of Japanese culture, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty and the rest of everyone’s favorite characters still manage to be their incorrigible selves.

Author : Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015008916515

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Peanuts Treasury by Charles Monroe Schulz Pdf

A collection of wisdom and actions, Peanuts style, featuring Charlie Brown, Lucy, Schroeder, Linus, Snoopy and the rest of the gang.

Author : Charles Schulz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781606997727

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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin by Charles Schulz Pdf

Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for nearly 50 years thanks to the animated television special ("I got a rock"), and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips (1959-1962) collected in this affordable, fun-sized gift book. Linus's proselytizing that on Halloween, the Great Pumpkin rises from the pumpkin patch and travels the world bringing presents to good little girls and boys are derided by his sister Lucy, laughed at by Charlie Brown, met with skepticism by baby Sally, and even causes "denominational squabbling" over who's better, the Great Pumpkin or Santa Claus. Year after year, Linus faces his persecution and inevitable disappointment with either blind faith or Quixotic perseverance. Charles M. Schulz's homage to the power of idealism and belief makes these some of the most beloved comic strips of all time.