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The Postmodern Sacred

2012-10-09 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-10-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Sacred by : Emily McAvan

Download or read book The Postmodern Sacred written by Emily McAvan. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious. This work examines this pop-culture spirituality, or "postmodern sacred," showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly "unreal" texts to gain a secondhand experience of transcendence and belief. Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena, the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic "Other" and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and popular culture. Today's pervasive, saturated media culture, this work shows, has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary, so that popular culture is not only powerfully shaped by the discourses of religion, but also shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world.

Sacred Interconnections

1990-04-05 Religion
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Release : 1990-04-05
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Sacred Interconnections by : David Ray Griffin

Download or read book Sacred Interconnections written by David Ray Griffin. This book was released on 1990-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred Interconnections illustrates the rejection of the modern idea that these subjects can be discussed as separate disciplines. While the term “postmodern” has been widely used for deconstructive, cynical, even nihilistic attitude, especially in the world of art and literature, the book represents the emergence of a reconstructive, reenchanting postmodernism, even within the artistic and literary circles.

The Postmodern Sacred

2007 Fantasy fiction
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Release : 2007
Genre : Fantasy fiction
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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Sacred by : Em McAvan

Download or read book The Postmodern Sacred written by Em McAvan. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God and Religion in the Postmodern World

1989-01-01 Religion
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Release : 1989-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 307/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis God and Religion in the Postmodern World by : David Ray Griffin

Download or read book God and Religion in the Postmodern World written by David Ray Griffin. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.

Para/Inquiry

2008-02-20 Philosophy
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Release : 2008-02-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Para/Inquiry by : Victor E. Taylor

Download or read book Para/Inquiry written by Victor E. Taylor. This book was released on 2008-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content. Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.

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