The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Edited by John C. Lyden, Eric M. Mazur
To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge – 576 pages
Series: Routledge Religion Companions
Description
Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It expores:
- key issues of definition and of methodology
- religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments
- the representation of different religious traditions within the media and popular culture, mainly in the West but also including important non-western spheres such as Bollywood.
Students will find the Companion an enjoyable and informative resource, whilst scholars will find it a stimulus to future work in the field.
Author Bio
John C. Lyden is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Grand View University, USA. He is editor of The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film (Routledge 2009).
Eric Michael Mazur is Gloria & David Furman Chair of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is co-editor of God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture with Kate McCarthy (Routledge, 2nd edition 2010).
Name: The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by John C. Lyden, Eric M. Mazur. Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It expores:
key issues of definition and of...
Categories: Religion & Popular Culture, Religion & Media, Religion & Sociology, Religion & Film, Religion in America, Popular Culture, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion