Recently added articles from Journal of Religion and Popular Culture:
With My Body I Thee Worship: Joe Wright's Erotic Vision in Pride & Prejudice (2005).
Sep 22, 2008 ... Maureen Sabine Department of History, Hong Kong University Abstract Film and literary critics are sharply divided over the merits of Joe Wright's 2005 Austen film adaptation, Pride & Prejudice. My essay bridges this divide by suggesting that the director ...
Ecstasy, Joy, and Sorrow: The Religious Experience of Southern College Football.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Eric Bain-Selbo Department Head, Philosophy and Religion, Western Kentucky University Abstract Beginning with the assumption that college football in the American South at least looks religious, this essay explores the possibility that it functions ...
The New Apocalyptic: Modern American Apocalyptic Fiction and its Ancient and Modern Cousins.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Wesley J. Bergen, Wichita State University This paper compares and contrasts modern American Christian apocalyptic fiction with two related genres, early Christian and modern secular apocalyptic literature. Starting with a description of early Christian apocalyptic literature, ...
The Passion as Horror Film: St. Mel of the Cross.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Richard Walsh "I think we have gotten too used to seeing pretty crosses on the wall, and we forget what really happened-. But when you finally see it and understand what he went through, it makes you feel not only compassion, but also debt. You want to repay him for the enormity ...
Sound Bites of Civil Religion: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Darryl V. Caterine, Le Moyne College Abstract The Presidential Medal of Freedom originated under the administration of John F. Kennedy to honour peacetime service by United States civilians. Emerging at the dawn of the television age, this new addition to the ...
American Idol (atry): A Religious Profanation.
Jun 22, 2008 ... Sabatino DiBernardo University of Central Florida Abstract It may seem as though religion, and along with it the prophetic voice, is and has long been on a steady decline in terms of wider societal and spiritual significance in our increasingly postmodern ...
Celling the End Times: The Contours of Contemporary Rapture Films [1].
Jun 22, 2008 ... John Walliss, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Religion Hope Centre for Millennialism Studies Department of Theology and Religious Studies Liverpool Hope University Abstract This article examines the contours of contemporary ...
Just Deserts: Ayn Rand and the Christian Right.
Jun 22, 2008 ... Cynthia Burack, Department of Women's Studies Ohio State University Abstract Churches and conservative religious organizations now conduct well-coordinated and effective compassionate pedagogies for their followers on contested social issues such as ...
Fundamentalist Christians, Raunch Culture, and Post-industrial Capitalism.
Jun 22, 2008 ... Iva Ellen Deutchman, Department of Political Science Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York Abstract This article argues that fundamentalist Christians are losing the political battle to transform the larger political culture in America. I ...
Taking off the Gloves: Dawkins and the Root of All Evil?
Jun 22, 2008 ... Curtis D. Carbonell Abstract Richard Dawkins holds Oxford's Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science. In his move from ethologist to evolutionary theorist, he has entered the public sphere as a vocal opponent of irrationalism. With his Channel ...
Envisioning the Arts: Changing Attitudes towards the Visual Arts in Canadian Conservative Protestant Christianity.
Mar 22, 2008 ... Mark David Chapman Associate Director, Ambrose Seminary Toronto Abstract Conservative Christianity has not been known as a supporter of the visual arts. Recently, however, some communities of Canadian conservative Christians have explored the ...
C.S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology. and Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C.S. Lewis Expands Our View of God .(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Clark, David G. C.S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. 181 pp., $19.95 U.S. ISBN: 1405158840. Schakel, Peter J. Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C.S. Lewis Expands Our View of God. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2008. 208 pp., $16.00 U.S. ISBN: ...
Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Vanhoozer, Kevin J., Charles A. Anderson and Michael J. Sleasman, eds. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. 288 pp. $23.99 U.S. ISBN: 978-0-8010-3167-0. [1] "This is a book about everyday theology, written by everyday theologians for everyday theologians" writes editor Kevin J ....
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Jacobs, A.J. Nw York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 388 pp., $25.00 U.S. ISBN: 0-7432-9147-6 (cloth). [1] It should be no surprise that one of the hazards of attempting to obey all of the Bible's commandments for a year is that one has to be honest (Proverbs 26:28). In The Year of ...
"I'm a Stranger Here Myself": Forced Individuation in Alien Resurrection.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Kile M. Ortigo Department of Psychology Emory University In Alien Resurrection, Ripley's hybridity catalyzes her unnatural individuation--a unique and significant contribution to the technological myth. Using an analytic framework created from Jung, Rushing, Frentz, and Haraway, ...
The Morality and Politics of Consumer Religion: How Consumer Religion Fuels the Culture Wars in the United States.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Scott Kline University of Waterloo Abstract In his book Consuming Religion (2003) Vincent J. Miller demonstrates how consumer capitalism has been able to commodify religious rituals, symbols, and figures and market them to consumers seeking self-improvement, ...
Norman Jewison and Melvyn Bragg ' s Jesus in 1973 and Mark ' s Gospel.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Dr. Jayhoon Yang, Hyupsung University Abstract Interpreting Norman Jewison and Melvyn Bragg's film Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) as a passion narrative, I examined it by employing the four dimensions of the cinematic quest for Jesus movies that Barns Tatum suggested ....
Every Day is [Not] Like Sunday.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Zachary R. Smith Abstract The secular experience of Sunday in the rhetoric of rock 'n' roll (sex, drugs and subversion) proves Eliade's formulation of the profane readily encapsulates with the term's popular understanding. As David Chidester articulates, rock 'n' ...
Serpents, Sainthood, and Celebrity: Symbolic and Ritual Tension in Appalachian Pentecostal Snake Handling.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Keith G. Tidball and Chris Toumey Abstract Intense media coverage of Appalachian Pentecostal-Holiness serpent handling sometimes causes a switch in signifier/signified relationships. The snakes used symbolically in this practice are grounded less in traditional ...
Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Vanhoozer, Kevin J., Charles A. Anderson, and Michael J. Sleasman, eds. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. 288 pp. $23.99. ISBN: 978-0-8010-3167-0. [1] "This is a book about everyday theology, written by everyday theologians for everyday theologians" (7), writes editor Kevin ...