TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostwalt, Conrad
AU  - Ostwalt,Conrad
TI  - Secular Steeples:  Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination
SN  - 9781441172860
U1  - C30.3 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Secularism
N1  - 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
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