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Secular Steeples 2nd Edition

Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

By: Conrad Ostwalt

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Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

By: Conrad Ostwalt

The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Collaboration, resistance, and co-belligerency were only some of the short-term consequences. Each country's historiography has undergone enormous changes in the seventy years since the invasion, and this collection by leading historians examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression as well as the long-term legacies for each country's self-image and national identity. The Scandinavian countries' war experience fundamentally changed how each nation functioned in the post-war world by altering political structures, the dynamics of their societies, the inter-relationships between the countries and the popular view of the wartime political and social responses to totalitarian threats. Hitler was no respecter of the rights of the Scandinavian nations but he and his associates dealt surprisingly differently with each of them. In the post-war period, this has caused problems of interpretation for political and cultural historians alike. Drawing on the latest research, this volume will be a welcome addition to the comparative histories of Scandinavia and the Second World War.

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1441172866

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Secular Steeples

Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

By: Conrad Ostwalt

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Secular Steeples

Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

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Conrad Ostwalt explores the confluence of religion and popular cultural forms in the secular world, demonstrating that a secular religiosity has co-opted some of the functions previously reserved for religions institutions.

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1563383616

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Secular Steeples 2nd edition

Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

By: Conrad Ostwalt

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Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

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An exploration of secularization in America, this book provides students with an innovative way of understanding the relationship between religion and secular culture. In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. Moving away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues, Ostwalt identifies areas of popular culture where secular and sacred views and objectives interact and enrich each other. The book demonstrates how religious institutions use the secular and popular media of television, movies, and music to make sacred teachings relevant. From megachurches to sports arenas, the Bible to Harry Potter, biker churches to virtual worship communities, Ostwalt demonstrates how religion persists across cultural forms, secular and sacred, with secular culture expressing religious messages and sometimes containing more authentic religious content than official religious teachings. An ideal text for anyone studying religion and popular culture, each chapter provides questions for discussion, a list of important terms and guided readings.

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1441123148

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After Eden

The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser

By: Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

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After Eden

The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser

By: Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838751687

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Screening The Sacred

Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film

By: Joel Martin

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Screening The Sacred

Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film

By: Joel Martin

What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky, and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes, borne out of male desire, inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several compelling questions the authors of this volume consider as they explore the way popular American film relates to religion. Oddly, religion and film?two pervasive elements of American culture?have seldom been studied in connection with each other. In this first systematic exploration, the authors look beyond surface religious themes and imagery in film, discovering a deeper, implicit presence of religion. They employ theological, mythological, and social and political criticism to analyze the influence of religion, in all its rich variety and diversity, on popular film. Perhaps more importantly, they consider how the medium of film has helped influence and shape American religious culture, secular or otherwise.More than a random collection of essays, this volume brings to the study of religion and film a carefully constructed analytic framework that advances our understanding of both. Screening the Sacred provides fresh and welcome insight to film criticism; it also holds far-reaching relevance for the study of religion. Progressive in its approach, instructive in its analyses, this book is written for students, scholars, and other readers interested in religion, popular film, and the impact of each on American culture.

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Routledge

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042996594X

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Love Valley

An American Utopia

By: Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

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Love Valley

An American Utopia

By: Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man--he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker's utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church--the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley's founders were motivated by utopian goals.

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0879727608

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9780879727604

Secular Steeples

Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination

By: Conrad Ostwalt

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Love Valley

An American Utopia

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Screening The Sacred

Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film

By: Joel Martin

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After Eden

The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser

By: Conrad Eugene Ostwalt

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The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser

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Tales of Unrest

By: Joseph Conrad

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Tales of Unrest

By: Joseph Conrad

Reproduction of the original: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad

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3734020514

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The Rescue

By: Joseph Conrad

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The Rescue

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

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Reproduction of the original: The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad

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Almayer ́s Folly

By: Joseph Conrad

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Reproduction of the original: Almayer ́s Folly by Joseph Conrad

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A Set of Six

By: Joseph Conrad

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Reproduction of the original: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

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Suspense

By: Joseph Conrad

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Suspense

By: Joseph Conrad

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was a remarkable figures in English literature. A master stylist, both lush and precise, his outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires.

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Secular Steeples 2nd Edition

Secular Steeples 2nd Edition

Secular Steeples

Secular Steeples

Secular Steeples 2nd edition

Secular Steeples 2nd edition

After Eden

After Eden

Screening The Sacred

Screening The Sacred

Love Valley

Love Valley

Secular Steeples

Secular Steeples

Love Valley

Love Valley

Screening The Sacred

Screening The Sacred

After Eden

After Eden

Tales of Unrest

Tales of Unrest

The Rescue

The Rescue

The Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea

Almayer ́s Folly

Almayer ́s Folly

A Set of Six

A Set of Six

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