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Article: The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture.(w)(Book review)
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THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO THEOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE. By Kelton Cobb. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. ix + 354. $29.95.
This ambitious work offers an overview of the academic study of popular culture and a theological engagement with its religious themes.
Part 1 summarizes major texts and arguments in the study of popular culture. The Frankfurt School's ideological critique of popular culture as stupefying kitsch is outlined and balanced with Walter Benjamin's more optimistic dissent from his colleagues. Then follows an extended treatment of the "cultural studies" approach developed by the Birmingham School and Michel de Certeau--an approach that is ...