The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture - Softcover

Cobb, Kelton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405107022 ISBN 13: 9781405107020

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music, television shows and advertising.

• A timely examination and contribution to the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture
  
• Locates the theological analysis of culture alongside political, sociological, economic, aesthetic and psychological analyses
  
• Surveys the work of religious and theological scholars who have turned their attention to popular culture
  
• Considers classic Christian thinkers who have wrestled with culture, such as St. Paul, Tertullian, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Ricoeur
  
• Proposes a method for analysing culture to discern its religious content
  
• Identifies religious themes in popular culture
  
• Uses illustrations, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby to Six Feet Under
  
• An appendix provides lists of films, novels, television series, consumer products, architectural works, cultural events, and corporate icons that lend themselves to theological analysis.

About this title

Book Description:

The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture is a timely examination of the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture. It shows how the theological analysis of popular culture is undertaken, discusses the writers who are doing it, and outlines various general theories of popular culture. Using illustrations from the pop culture scene, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby and Chuck Palahniuk to novels about God, Disney fairytales, and the macabre television series Six Feet Under, the Guide identifies and discusses religious themes in popular culture. The author probes popular movies, novels, music, architectural design, television shows, and advertising for what they are saying about God, human nature, sin, salvation, and final redemption. An appendix provides an annotated list of books that offer theological readings of popular culture, and offers suggested readings on various "zones" of popular culture that lend themselves to theological analysis.

About the Author:

Kelton Cobb is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405107022
• ISBN 13: 9781405107020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366