Andrew D. Thrasher

Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Theology through Exegesis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 constituted by the consumption of these messages shapes and informs what the contemporary world finds believable, credible, and desirable in a post-Christian context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216259695
• Artikelnr.: 74833206

Autorenporträt

Andrew D. Thrasher is adjunct professor of religions studies at George Mason University and in the Virginia Community College System.

Inhaltsangabe

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