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Article: Pop culture Christianity.(Eyes Wide Open: Looking for Gad in Popular Culture)(Book review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- June 1, 2007
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Eyes Wide Open: Looking for Gad in Popular Culture, by William Romanowski. Brazos Press.
Since the box-office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, there's been a lot of hoopla about the big, previously neglected "Christian audience" (and how to cash in on it). But the strange truth is that most Christians--including evangelicals--are already quite comfortable with mainstream popular culture. Despite frequently denouncing the values of Hollywood, religious people are indistinguishable from nonreligious people when it comes to watching movies and television shows, according to a recent study. It seems we have assimilated--behaviorally, at least. Yet ...