Secular Steeples Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination
- 2th ed.
- London Bloomsbury 2012
- 322p
includes index and biblioraphy
Popular culture, the religious imagination , and the evolution of God: A new metaphysics...........1 Secularization ...23 Part I : Pre-text Space/place/Pre-text.........57 Megachurches...........71 Love valley: The sacralization of secular space...........88 Part 2: Text Narrative/text....101 Religion and secular text...........116 Part 3 : Post-text Image /post-text.............151 A cinematic Secular apocalyptic imagination ............164 Part 4 : Con-text Communitas / con-text........201 The motorcycle as american icon and symbol of sacred journey.........208 Emerging religion: Machine guns, post-christian churches, the internet, snakes and science........225