Religion and Popular Culture a Hyper-real Testament.
Основен автор: | Possamai, Adam. |
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Формат: | Електронен |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Brussel :
P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A,
2012.
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Religion and Popular Culture : A Hyper-real Testament. |
Съдържание:
- 7; Preface 11; Note 13; Introduction 15; Religion and Art 16; Art and Popular Culture 18; Popular Culture and Religion 20; For a Weberian Approach 21; Contents 23; Note an Methodology 26; CHAPTER 1. Religion and Spirituality: From Modernity to Postmodernity 27; lntroduction 27; Modernity and Postmodernity 29; Keeping Secularisation at Bay 31; The Secularist Break or the Tertium Quid 33; Religion and Spirituality 35; Conclusion 39; CHAPTER 2. Consumer Religions 41; lntroduction 41; Consumption 42; Religion and Consumption 45; Hyper-Consumer Religions 49.
- Cultural Appropriation of Indigenous Culture 52Cultural Consumption of History 55; CHAPTER 3. Subjective Myths 57; Introduction 57; Consumption of Popular Culture 57; Cultural Consumption, Lipovetsky, and the Postmodern Individual 64; Subjective Myths and Meta-Consumption 67; CHAPTER 4. Hyper-Real Religion 71; Introduction 71; The Jedi Religion 72; Baudrillard and Hyper-Reality 77; Hyper-Real Religion in the Risk Society 79; CHAPTER 5. New Forms of Religious Identification Carried by Popular Culture 85; Introduction 85; A World of Multiple Possibilities 87.
- The Human Potential Ethic and Alternative Spiritualities 88Superheroes in Comics 90; Baby Boomers and Generation X 92; The Human Potential Ethic and Superheroes in Affinity: Three Arguments 94; The Human Potential Ethic and Superheroes: Two Comments 97; The Human Potential Ethic and Jediism 98; Oprah and Spiritual Empowerment 101; A Hyper-Real Re-Enchantment 103; CHAPTER 6. Esoteric Knowledge(s) and Popular Culture 105; Introduction 105; Esotericism 107; Simmel and Secrecy 111; Seeking a Hyper-Real ""Secret Knowledge"" 116.
- CHAPTER 7. The Logic of Late Capitalism and the Stasis of Religion 121Introduction 121; Jameson' s Late Capitalism 122; Perennism as Part of the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism9 125; The Stasis of Culture? The Stasis of Religion 128; CHAPTER 8. Popular Culture and Hypo-Consumer Religious Groups 135; Introduction 135; Fighting Psychological Pressure in Postmodern Culture 137; Monotheistic Fundamentalism(s) 138; Resistance to Popular Culture 140; Re-Evaluation of Popular Culture 149; Re-Appropriation of Popular Culture 151; Meta-Resistance to Popular Culture 154; Conclusion 155.
- CHAPTER 9. Conclusion 157Postscript 161; References 163.