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: 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. He also argues that 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 part-time professor and instructor 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
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