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Introduction Introduction
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Problematizing the Issues Problematizing the Issues
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Is It Live or Memorex? The Reciprocity of Spirituality, Religion, and Culture Is It Live or Memorex? The Reciprocity of Spirituality, Religion, and Culture
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Religion as the Symbolization of the Sacred in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol Religion as the Symbolization of the Sacred in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
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Expanding and Expounding the Theoretical Model of Myth Expanding and Expounding the Theoretical Model of Myth
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Cosmology, Anthropology, Metaphysics Cosmology, Anthropology, Metaphysics
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René Girard’s Theory of Sacred Violence René Girard’s Theory of Sacred Violence
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Data Collecting Strategies Data Collecting Strategies
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The Violence of Poverty and Religious Significance in Nickel and Dimed The Violence of Poverty and Religious Significance in Nickel and Dimed
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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9 Teaching Religion, Violence, and Pop Culture
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Published:May 2012
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Abstract
This essay explores viable pedagogical approaches for teaching religion and violence through an examination of their pervasive but masked presence in North American popular culture. These themes present themselves profusely in a wide spectrum of popular media such as film, music, and the internet. This essay suggests theoretical, philosophical, and hermeneutical tools for training students to read popular media as religious texts and to perform a type of “cultural archaeology” on the paradigms these media both reflect and create. Students are encouraged to try and discern the covert, camouflaged, and implied presence of themes related to religion and violence. The theories of Rene Girard and Karl Marx are helpful to them in this regard, and the essay concludes with a discussion of the violence of poverty in the U.S. as a potential source for one important set of student insights.
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