The Bible in/and popular culture : a creative encounter / edited by Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright.

Other author Wainwright, Elaine Mary, 1948-2024
Other author Culbertson, Philip Leroy, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoAtlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2010.
Descriptionvii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Variant title Bible in popular culture
Variant title Bible and popular culture
SeriesSemeia studies / Society of Biblical Literature ; 65
Semeia studies ; no. 65. ^A1043593
Contents Some novel remarks about popular culture and religion : Salman Rushdie and the adaptation of sacred texts / Michael J. Gilmore -- Red dirt God : divine silence and the search for transcendent beauty in the music of Emmylou Harris / Mark McEntire -- "Here, there, and everywhere" : images of Jesus in American popular culture / Dan W. Clanton Jr. -- 'Tis a pity she's (still) a whore : popular music's ambivalent resistance to the reclamation of Mary Magdalene / Philip Culbertson -- Spittin', cursin', and outin' : hip-hop apocalypse in the imperial necropolis / Jim Perkinson -- The Bible and reggae : liberation or subjugation? / Noel Leo Erskine -- "Help me make it through the night" : narrating class and country music in the theology of Paul / Tex Sample -- Jesus of the moon : Nick Cave's Christology / Roland Boer -- Prophetic voices in graphic novels : the "comic and tragic vision" of apocalyptic rhetoric in Kingdom come and Watchmen / Terry Ray Clark -- Reading "pop-wise" : the very fine art of "making do" when reading the Bible in bro'Town / Steve Taylor -- Daemons and angels : the end of the world according to Philip Pullman / Tina Pippin -- Close encounters : the Bible as pre-text in popular culture / Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele -- Pop scripture : creating small spaces for social change / Erin Runions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010016749
ISBN9781589834934 (paper binding : alk. paper)
ISBN1589834933 (paper binding : alk. paper)
ISBN9781589834941 (electronic library copy)
ISBN1589834941 (electronic library copy)

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Joyner General Stacks BS538.7 .B525 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold