Religion and popular culture

P.I.E.-Peter Lang

2005

176 p.

Gods, humans, and religions ; 7

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-176)

Introduction -- Religion and sprituality: from modernity to postmodernity -- Consumer religions -- Subjective myths -- Hyper-real religion -- New forms of religious identification carried by popular culture -- Estoeric knowledge(s) and popular culture -- The logic of late capitalism and the stasis of religion -- Popular culture and hypo-consumer religious groups -- Conclusion

This book views itself as the 'hyper-real testament' of new religious phenomena by addressing the theories, among many others of Baudrillard, Jameson and Lipovetsky, and by exploring the use of fictions such as those from Harry Potter, The Matrix, Star Trek, Buffy and Lord of the Rings

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