Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture

Theology through Exegesis

Andrew D. Thrasher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1587-5 (ISBN)

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Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture offers exegetical analyses of the post-Christian theological and religious messages found within twenty-first century popular culture. The author argues how the consumption of popular culture in the twenty-first century has the potential to reshape the possibilities of believing in late modernity.

Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture: Theology through Exegesis analyzes several theological exegeses of contemporary popular culture as post-Christian scripture. It includes analyses of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Lion King, and Cloud Atlas, the television shows Lucifer and Shameless, and contemporary pop punk and alternative music. Through an application of three hermeneutical methods (re-enchantment, resourcement, and rescription), a prophetic and apocalyptic critique of modernity, and an analysis of the late-modern human condition, Andrew D. Thrasher argues how popular culture recites post-Christian religious and theological messages marked by a post-disenchantment theology constituted by the consumption of these messages shapes and informs what the contemporary world finds believable, credible, and desirable in a post-Christian context.

Andrew D. Thrasher is adjunct professor of religions studies at George Mason University and in the Virginia Community College System.

Dedication
Foreword by Matthew William Brake
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Frameworks
Chapter One: Consuming a Post-Christian Canon?
Chapter Two: The Consumptive Poetics of Belief
Part II: Methodology through Practice
Chapter Three: Marveling Re-enchantment?
Chapter Four: Deconstructing Inter-Religious Resourcement in The Lion King
Chapter Five: Rescripting Theology in Lucifer
Part III: Problems and Prophecies of Modernity
Chapter Six: The Tragedy and Trajectory of Modernity in Cloud Atlas
Chapter Seven: Grieving in the Wake of Wakanda
Part IV: Rescripting Sin as Brokenness
Chapter Eight: Doxologies of Brokenness
Chapter Nine: The Poverty of Sin in Shameless
Part V: Constructive Conclusions
Chapter Ten: Messages of Post-Christian Theology
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Vorwort	Matthew William Brake
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustration
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-9787-1587-0 / 1978715870
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-1587-5 / 9781978715875
Zustand	Neuware