Christianity and heavy metal as impure sacred within the secular West : transgressing the sacred / Jason Lief.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lief, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy metal (Music)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Heavy metal (Music).

Christianity.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 117 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred explores the symbolic connections between Christianity and heavy metal music in the context of the secular West. Heavy Metal uses symbols and imagery taken from Christianity, even if the purpose is to critique religion. This usage creates a positive connection with an interpretation of Christianity as a form of cultural critique. Given that metal and Christianity are associated with Western culture, this book explores how Christianity and heavy metal function within the context of secularity as a form of ideological critique. Using the ideas of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Charles Taylor as a starting point, this book explores the religious nature of secularism in the West interpreted in the immanent processes of politics and economics. In this context, both Christianity and heavy metal provide a cultural critique through images of death, the grotesque, and sacrifice. By bringing this religious interpretation of secularism into conversation with the ideas of Georgés Batailles, Slavoj Zizek, and Jürgen Moltmann, this book will demonstrate the positive relationship between Christianity and heavy metal. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Over the Hills and Far Away: The Mythology of Heavy Metal 1

2 The Beautiful People: Metal as Ideological Transgression 23

3 Into the Void: Heavy Metal as Cultural Tactic 45

4 God is Dead: The Christ Event as Impure Sacred 71

5 Why Have You Forsaken Me?: The Subversive Christian Core of Heavy Metal 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lief, Jason author. Christianity and heavy metal as impure sacred within the secular West

ISBN:

9781498506328

1498506321

OCLC:

986788504

Publisher Number:

99972912767