Sensational Devotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensational Devotion write by Jill Stevenson. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Sensational Devotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Sensational Devotion, Jill Stevenson examines a range of evangelical performances, including contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land re-creations, creationist museums, and megachurches, to understand how they serve their evangelical audiences while shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. Such performative media support specific theologies and core beliefs by creating sensual, live experiences for believers, but the accessible, familiar forms they take and the pop culture motifs they employ also attract nonbelievers willing to “try out” these genres, even if only for curiosity’s sake. This familiarity not only helps these performances achieve their goals, but it also enables them to contribute to public dialogue about the role of religious faith in America. Stevenson shows how these genres are significant and influential cultural products that utilize sophisticated tactics in order to reach large audiences comprised of firm believers, extreme skeptics, and those in between. Using historical research coupled with personal visits to these various venues, the author not only critically examines these spaces and events within their specific religious, cultural, and national contexts, but also places them within a longer devotional tradition in order to suggest how they cultivate religious belief by generating vivid, sensual, affectively oriented, and individualized experiences.
Playing God
Playing God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing God write by Henry Bial. This book was released on 2015-08-20. Playing God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar
Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts
Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts write by Anja-Maria Bassimir. This book was released on 2017-06-23. Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the interrelationship of religion and print practices, and sheds new light on the history of religious publishing in a globalizing world and its changing media consumption. Periodicals have recently become of interest to scholars in book history and religious studies, as they try to determine how magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers meet the diverse spiritual demands of believers conditioned by an increasingly translocal and pluralistic religious landscape in modern America and beyond. Existing publications in this field have produced new insights into the multilayered nineteenth- and twentieth-century publishing enterprises, as well as the numerous actors behind them, often crossing ethnic, gender, and national boundaries. This volume focuses instead on the socio-economic conditions, institutional organizations, action networks, and communicative environments that shape religious publishing and its medial apparatus in transnational contexts. In doing so, the authors study the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks needed for circulating words and images that nourish specific formations of religious adherence.
Transgressive Devotion
Transgressive Devotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transgressive Devotion write by Natalie Wigg-Stevenson . This book was released on 2021-02-28. Transgressive Devotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear. Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves. A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling ‘boxed in’ by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other. This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.
The Esoteric
The Esoteric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Esoteric write by . This book was released on 1889. The Esoteric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
