Nostalgia, Religion and Popular Culture Rethinking Sacred Secular through Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II''s death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion. Focusing on the lived experiences of ''ordinary people'' and in tandem with the ''turn to the self'' discourse, Deacy suggests that our relationship with nostalgia illustrates the shift from objective and transcendent value-systems towards the domain of everyday experience, love and loss. This book revisits the way we understand religion and the secular, using the medium of popular culture, such as radio, film, TV and music to interrogate the ''nostalgia-as-religion'' narrative. The interpersonal and social elements of nostalgia are explored, such as through the way radio fostered virtual communities and played a key role regarding national, religious and cultural memory during the mourning of the Queen. Attention is given to how nostalgia has evolved over time, and how it can be understood as a religious process which transforms our lives at a time of loss and contributes to an eschatological future.>

Product details

• Authors: Chris Deacy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.01.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
• EAN: 9781350477810
• ISBN: 978-1-350-47781-0
• Pages: 216
• Dimensions (packing): 16.2 x 23.6 x 1.8 cm
• Subjects: Radio, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Religion: general, Monarchy, Film, TV & radio, Elizabeth II, Nostalgia: general, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Religion and Film, religion and music, Religion and popular culture, nostalgia as religion, eschatological future, Secular Sacred, religion and TV, religious and spiritual experiences, turn to the self