...This chapter explores the circulation of characteristically religious patterns and processes through popular culture. Although religious themes might appear in cultural media, popular culture also generates formations that seem to operate like religion. This chapter highlights three ways in which...

... developed and used by Japanese scholars and critics. It examines how people have negotiated the interwoven politics of sexuality and modernity. The chapter draws an analogy between the “excessive semiosis” of popular culture and the practice of cross-dressing in an attempt to clarify the ways in which...

... sexualization nature cosmos Lego Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu television series Kung Fu Panda movie Dalai Lama religion popular culture Oriental Monk Buddhism Driving down a busy street in Oakland, California, I was met by the larger-than-life presence of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. He appeared to me...

..., Christian. The fourth and final case maps newly emergent ecological and pagan sensibilities proliferating since the early 2000s. Together, they mark the significance of metal for the study of religion and popular culture, while also suggesting some possible future developments. devil Marie Gisele black...

... Twitter megachurch pastors congregation religion popular culture Mark Driscoll Judah Smith church branding Walking into a megachurch for the first time, I immediately felt lost and at home. Upon entering the lobby, I was in need of a map. The soft eggshell tone of the walls where members’ artwork...

...This chapter examines the fandom that has grown up around the Star Trek movies and television series, arguing that the entertainment industry also creates meanings that begin to function in religious ways for consumers of popular culture. Popular culture has become an independent...

... religion popular culture Christianity body size What comes to mind when you hear the word “religion”? There may be as many answers to that question as there are individuals responding to it. But I would guess that few people would respond by talking about calories, body size, and dieting. What does...

...This chapter provides a methodology for exploring and understanding the connections between religion and popular culture, labeled as “nitty-gritty hermeneutics.” Nitty-gritty hermeneutics exhibits a sense of nonconformity. It ridicules interpretations and interpreters who seek to inhibit...

... between popular culture and the royal family in France, just one example of how monarchs and their women have fared in the court of public opinion. female power hereditary rule female power and Walthall Anne concubines culture and the arts Chosŏn Korean literature and calligraphy Inomata Takeshi...

...This chapter presents a general argument about the relationship between Anglo-American popular culture and revolutionary consciousness. It demonstrates important thematic continuities between these cultural forms and the political radicalism that emerged in the 1760s and 1770s. It takes issue...

... worlds, which shaped Christian and civic ideals, was preserved and ordered in the construction of a house of memory. Michele del Giogante was an accountant who compiled some of the most interesting anthologies, several of which contained a memory treatise. Popular culture and Michele's personal identity...

...This introductory chapter discusses mass mediation and its implications for the scale of social action, for sociological analysis, and for the character of modern societies, considering the role of mass-mediated popular culture in defining the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle...

... popular culture oral heritage Familiarity is what popular culture has delivered since the printing press. james twitchell, Carnival Culture Either sing monologues or forget it. badi 'a masabni, al-Ithnayn...

...This introduction outlines the book’s topic, argument, methods, and layout. It overviews ABC Sports’ dominant place in network sports television and explains why the subsidiary is a significant object through which to consider sports media and popular culture in the United States. ABC American...

...Offering a diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new...

.... This historically grounded analysis draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan. The Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki...

.... It makes a case for increased attention to myth within television programs as an expression of religion in popular culture. In particular, it argues that to fully understand the role of mythology in popular culture we must take kids' cartoon series of the 2010s seriously. One in particular...

...This chapter examines representations of Islam in American popular culture, focusing on movies, television, and comic books. Islam is typically represented as a problem originating from the Middle East that poses danger to the homeland. Over the past decade, however, Muslims have appeared in ever...

...This chapter explores the way that Christmas has gathered material from centuries of popular culture into itself. Especially as seen through the interpretive lens of two analogies (a three-layer cake and a snowball), it should become obvious that the religious celebration of Christmas has been...

... video engaged with visuals, urban styles, fashion, fun, and other forms of popular culture to liberate themselves from a relentless framing that portrays them as either covered and oppressed by Islam or uncovered and sexually liberated by Western secular culture. It argues that popular culture...