Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination - Couverture souple

Ostwalt, Conrad

 
9781563383618: Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1563383616 ISBN 13 : 9781563383618
Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group - Trinity, 2011

Synopsis

In this provocative volume, Conrad Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, but rather that it shifts the authority to express religious ideals from the traditional, institutional church to other cultural entities, such as government and media. Religious institutions already use popular secular media like television, movies, and mass-market music to make teachings relevant. When religious institutions no longer dominate culture, they lose their grip on striving for the Sacred, the author says, and their messages find other outlets. As a result, today's secular culture may in fact contain more authentic religious content than official church teachings.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this provocative volume, Conrad Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, but rather that it shifts the authority to express religious ideals from the traditional, institutional church to other cultural entities, such as government and media. Religious institutions already use popular secular media like television, movies, and mass-market music to make teachings relevant. When religious institutions no longer dominate culture, they lose their grip on striving for the Sacred, the author says, and their messages find other outlets. As a result, today's secular culture may in fact contain more authentic religious content than official church teachings.

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Éditeur
Continuum International Publishing Group - Trinity
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1563383616
ISBN 13 
9781563383618
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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