Evangelical Christians And Popular Culture

Author : Robert H. Woods Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216081746

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Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture by Robert H. Woods Jr. Pdf

This three-volume collection demonstrates the depth and breadth of evangelical Christians' consumption, critique, and creation of popular culture, and how evangelical Christians are both influenced by—and influence—mainstream popular culture, covering comic books to movies to social media. Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel addresses the full spectrum of evangelical media and popular culture offerings, even delving into lesser-known forms of evangelical popular culture such as comic books, video games, and theme parks. The chapters in this 3-volume work are written by over 50 authors who specialize in fields as diverse as history, theology, music, psychology, journalism, film and television studies, advertising, and public relations. Volume 1 examines film, radio and television, and the Internet; Volume 2 covers literature, music, popular art, and merchandise; and Volume 3 discusses public figures, popular press, places, and events. The work is intended for a scholarly audience but presents material in a student-friendly, accessible manner. Evangelical insiders will receive a fresh look at the wide variety of evangelical popular culture offerings, many of which will be unknown, while non-evangelical readers will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to the subject matter.

Author : William D. Romanowski
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441200808

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Eyes Wide Open by William D. Romanowski Pdf

Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed and fascinating approach to popular culture. William D. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analysis of familiar, well-loved movies and television characters from Indiana Jones to Homer Simpson, and he speaks with historical depth and expertise on films from Casablanca to Crash and music from Bruce Springsteen to U2. Romanowski's confessional approach affirms a role for popular culture in faithful living. Practical, analytical approaches to content, meaning, and artistic style offer the tools to participate responsibly and imaginatively in popular cultural activities. An engaging read, this new edition introduces students and thoughtful readers to popular culture--one of the most influential forces in contemporary society.

Author : William D. Romanowski
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587432019

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Eyes Wide Open by William D. Romanowski Pdf

This revised and expanded edition explores more deeply how Christians can most profitably and critically hear, read, and view pop culture.

Author : Richard W. Santana,Gregory Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476627083

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Religion and Popular Culture by Richard W. Santana,Gregory Erickson Pdf

Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, writing and practicing religion and theology. Film, television, music, sports and video games are integral to understanding the spiritual, the secular and the in-between in the modern world. In its revised second edition, this book explores how religious issues of canonicity, scriptural authority, morality, belief and unbelief are worked out not in churches, seminaries or university classrooms, but in our popular culture. Topics new to this edition include lived religion, digital technology, new trends in belief and identification, the film Noah (2014), the television series True Blood, Kanye West’s music, the video game Fallout and media events of recent years. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Robert Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 0313386544

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Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Public figures, popular press, places, and events by Robert Woods Pdf

This set looks at evangelical media and popular culture offerings, even delving into lesser-known forms of evangelical popular culture such as comic books, video games, and theme parks. Contributions are from authors who specialize in fields as diverse as history, theology, music, psychology, journalism, film and television studies, advertising, and public relations.

Author : Shirley R. Steinberg,Joe L.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429981302

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Christotainment by Shirley R. Steinberg,Joe L. Pdf

For more than two thousand years Christian expansion and proselytizing was couched in terms of 'defending the faith'. Until recently in the United States, much of that defense came in the form of reactions against the 'liberal' influences channeled through big-corporate media such as popular music, Hollywood movies, and network and cable television. But the election of Ronald Reagan as a Hollywood President introduced Christian America to the tools of advertising and multimedia appeals to children and youth to win new believers to God's armies. Christotainment examines how Christian fundamentalism has realigned its armies to combat threats against it by employing the forces it once considered its chief enemies: the entertainment media, including movies, television, music, cartoons, theme parks, video games, and books. Invited contributors discuss the critical theoretical frameworks of top-selling devices within Christian pop culture and the appeal to masses of American souls through the blessed marriage of corporatism and the quest for pleasure.

Author : Christianity Today International
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418534097

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Faith and Pop Culture by Christianity Today International Pdf

The Christianity Today Study Series delves into today's vital cultural issues to get to the heart of what these topics mean to readers. Each eight-week study is based on articles written by today's leading Christian authors and published by Christianity Today magazines. These remarkable studies foster deep, authentic, and relevant discussion that will challenge and grow any small group Good Entertainment takes on a variety of topics, including: The intersection of Christian faith and pop culture entertainment (for example, literature, movies/TV, and music) How God can speak to us through the arts, even though it seems much of today's media messages are largely amoral How Christians should deal with and discern between entertainment that is meaningful and appropriate and entertainment that is destructive and should be avoided

Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300074999

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Material Christianity by Colleen McDannell Pdf

What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.

Author : Bruce David Forbes,Jeffrey H. Mahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520932579

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Religion and Popular Culture in America by Bruce David Forbes,Jeffrey H. Mahan Pdf

The connection between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. In fourteen lively essays whose topics range from the divine feminine in The Da Vinci Code to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," and from the world of sports to the ways in which cyberculture has influenced traditional religions, this book offers fascinating insights into what popular culture reveals about the nature of American religion today. Revised throughout, this new edition features three new essays—including a fascinating look at the role of women in apocalyptic fiction such as the Left Behind series—and editor Bruce David Forbes has written a new introduction. In addition to the new textual material, each chapter concludes with a set of suggested discussion questions.

Author : Terry Ray Clark,Dan W. Clanton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415781046

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Understanding Religion and Popular Culture by Terry Ray Clark,Dan W. Clanton Pdf

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

Author : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631495748

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.

Author : Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801024177

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A Matrix of Meanings by Craig Detweiler,Barry Taylor Pdf

A lighthearted analysis of modern pop culture considers what lessons can be learned from today's movies, music, television, and more, exploring how its popularity and successes reflects today's society. Original.

Author : Robert H. Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:918888734

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Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture by Robert H. Woods Pdf

Author : J.T. English
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535993531

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Deep Discipleship by J.T. English Pdf

Everyone is being discipled. The question is: what is discipling us? The majority of Christians today are being discipled by popular media, flashy events, and folk theology because churches have neglected their responsibility to make disciples. But the church is not a secondary platform in the mission of God; it is the primary platform God uses to grow people into the image of Jesus. Therefore, as church leaders, it is our primary responsibility to establish environments and relationships where people can be trained, grow, and be sent as disciples. There are three indispensable elements of discipleship: Learning to participate in the biblical story (the Bible) Growing in our confession of who God is and who we are (theology) Regularly participating in private and corporate intentional action (spiritual disciplines) Deep Discipleship equips churches to reclaim the responsibility of discipling people at any point on their journey.

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493441914

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The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

"Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener."--Publishers Weekly Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By analyzing the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism, she unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices to consider what is Christian rather than merely cultural. The result is a clearer path forward for evangelicals amid their current identity crisis--and insight for others who want a deeper understanding of what the term "evangelical" means today. Brought to life with color illustrations, images, and paintings, this book explores ideas including conversion, domesticity, empire, sentimentality, and more. In the end, it goes beyond evangelicalism to show us how we might be influenced by images, stories, and metaphors in ways we cannot always see.