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The Routledge companion to religion and popular culture / edited by John C. Lyden and Eric Michael Mazur.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Routledge religion companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Religious aspects.
- Popular culture.
- Religion and culture.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2015.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: key issues of definition and of methodology religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments the representation of different religious traditions within the media and popular culture, mainly in the West but also including important non-western spheres such as Bollywood. Students will find the Companion an enjoyable and informative resource, whilst scholars will find it a stimulus to future work in the field"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Approaching the discipline of religion and popular culture
- part 2. Encounters with popular culture
- part 3. Religious traditions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781315724478
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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