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Article: Religion and Popular Culture in America.(Review)
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Religion and Popular Culture in America, BRUCE DAVID FORBES and JEFFREY H. MAHAN (eds.). Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2000, xi + 335 pp. $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.
Editors Forbes and Mahan have compiled an intriguing series of essays that explore the various ways in which religion and popular culture interact and have an impact on each other. The editors make a firm case for studying culture, drawing importance to the study of the text of a cultural expression, the text's author, the text's audience, and what each of these can tell us about America's culture overall. While the essays have been penned with US popular culture in mind, the ...