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Mediating The Sacred: Popular Culture As Liturgical Icon In A Secular Age, Jason Lief
Mediating The Sacred: Popular Culture As Liturgical Icon In A Secular Age, Jason Lief
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This presentation explores how popular culture and the new forms of technology that mediate it function as a "cultural liturgy" within the immanent frame of secularity. Poetic and symbolic expressions that mediate the sacred within the lived experience of young people will be shared. Icons within the secular experience of young people in the West can be seen positively by Christians. This paper draws from research conducted for a forthcoming book on the relationship between Heavy Metal music and Theology.
Love, Sex, And Feminism: A Critique Of Fifty Shades Of Grey, Katherine Argo
Love, Sex, And Feminism: A Critique Of Fifty Shades Of Grey, Katherine Argo
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The Fifty Shades trilogy has captivated over 100 million consumers. What makes these books stand out among others is not the literary style but the underlying aspects. Readers discover that the plot and characters of Fifty Shades of Grey are altogether intriguing, familiar, and dynamic. It is at its core a story of deception, love, revenge, and redemption. However, there are negative aspects to the book that we as Christians need to push back against, and there are positive aspects that we need to reclaim.
Politics Of Bob Dylan, Jeff Taylor
Politics Of Bob Dylan, Jeff Taylor
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Bob Dylan’s political worldview has remained essentially the same over six different decades and numerous private and public transformations. Whether he appeared as a New Left protest icon, rock music and Counterculture innovator, rural family man, Christian associated with the Jesus People, or cantankerous social critic distrustful of worldly leaders, Dylan’s notions of freedom and justice, power and sin, have tied all of these roles together.
Values Of Western Society Play A Role In Terrorism, John Visser
Values Of Western Society Play A Role In Terrorism, John Visser
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Guest editorial by Dr. Visser published in the Des Moines Register, February 26, 2015.