Popular myth and legend; popular ritual; popular spirituality and morality;popular "Churches".
Eric Mazur is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bucknell University and author of The Americanization of Religious Minorities (1999). Kate McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University in Chico.
"The insights explored in this volume provide rich resources for
the student of missiology for the crucial task of engaging
contemporary American culture, not only from an anthropological,
but also from a missiological perspective.."
-Eddie Gibbs, "Missiology: An International Review
"Mazur and McCarthy present a rich collection of ethnographic
research detailing the religious myths and practices exhibited
through a variety of expressions of popular culture.."
-"Religious Studies Review, January 2002
..."lively and fun-filled... Recommended for all readership
levels."
-D. W. Ferm, "Choice
"With this book's smart and insightful authors acting as your
guides, you can leave behind the seemingly secular surface of
American popular culture, come to understand the religious impulses
coursing through music and television, feel their pulse, tap their
energy, and in the end reach another country where ordinary things
reveal unexpected significance. Be a hero. Take the journey."
-Joel Martin, co-editor of Screening the Sacred: Religion,
Mythology and Ideology in Popular American Film
"Seeking not 'religious things' but religious meanings, the authors
in this excellent collection address such diverse and pervasive
interests in North American culture as football, dieting, southern
barbeque, cop shows, rap, and religion on TV. Simultaneously
sympathetic and critical, they propose new ways of thinking about
popular culture and its effects."
-Margaret R. Miles, author of "Seeing and Believing: Religion and
Values in the Movies
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