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Pop goes religion : faith in popular culture
Title:
Pop goes religion : faith in popular culture
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Summary:
In this collection of essays, popular American journalist, Terry Mattingly teaches readers how to identify elements of faith in today's pop culture. From music to movies, politics to the pope, Mattingly explores the matters of the heart with a fresh and relevant perspective.
Year Published:
2005
Physical Description:
199 p.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
God and popular music -- U2 bedevils the modern church -- The rock for life pledge -- Elvis, a prodigal son? -- Songs for souls in hard times -- Bono's crusade comes to DC -- The testimony of Johnny Cash -- Bleeping Baptists pray for bleeping Ozzy -- Worship for sale, worship for sale -- Faith and the big screen -- Hollywood after the passion -- Matrix, the apocalypse -- Heeding Tolkien's words -- God-talk after the matrix, part II -- The passion and the Talmud -- Star wars' the only parable in town -- The late great planet Hollywood -- Mission filling hole in Hollywood -- Beyond the Baptist boycott -- The passion of old words and symbols -- A Hollywood movie to remember -- A hail Mary for Hollywood -- Not a rookie faith -- God on TV -- God and man, and the Simpsons -- Freud, Lewis, and God on PBS -- The very Reverend Ted Turner speaks -- Vanilla values on the D.C. mall -- Lent, fasting from TV -- Veggies attack the funny gap -- The gospel according to the gospel according to ... books -- Homeschoolers : the anti-Woodstock generation -- Sex and the church -- Why churches are silent on sex -- Beyond xxxchurch.com -- Should a Christian do a nude scene? -- Missionary cohabitating -- Topless culture wars in Idaho -- The modern rites of courtship -- Faith, freedom, and pornography -- A Vatican e-mail gap? -- Ink, paper, and God -- All those left behind Catholics -- Comic book visionaries -- J.K. Rowling, inkling? -- Reading the sporting Jews -- Are journalists getting religion? -- The gospel according to Grisham -- Romeo and Juliet, born again -- Yes, there is a Mitford -- Harry Potter is he safe? -- Pop culture -- A brand name for your soul -- Catholic college culture wars -- Faith popcorn's spiritual cocktails -- Learning to preach in fog -- What does it mean to be a martyr? -- Praying with the digital natives -- Year 12, Microsoft, Mozart, and hell -- Just another Sunday at Saddleback -- Intolerant Christians in the public square -- Mysterious echoes of gunshots -- Politics and current events -- Spirituality up
ISBN:
9780849909986
Publisher:
Nashville, Tenn. : W. Pub. Group, 2005.