Between Sacred and Profane - Researching Religion and Popular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Gordon Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Religion and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books in the area of religion and contemporary culture! including Understanding Theology and Popular Culture and The New Spirituality: An Introduction to Progressive Belief in the Twenty-First Century (I.B.Tauris). Klappentext There has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. This book offers a review of this field of scholarship! highlighting both its achievements and flaws! and setting out an agenda for its next phase of study. There has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. This book offers a review of this field of scholarship, highlighting both its achievements and flaws, and setting out an agenda for its next phase of study. Zusammenfassung There has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. This book offers a review of this field of scholarship, highlighting both its achievements and flaws, and setting out an agenda for its next phase of study.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Lynch
• Assisted by: Gordon Lynch (Editor), Gordon (University of Kent Lynch (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2007
• EAN: 9781845115401
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-540-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries