The postmodern sacred
Subtitle: popular culture spirituality in the science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy genres
By: Emily McAvan
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780786463886
Subjects: Fantasy literature; History and criticism; Postmodernism; Popular culture; Religious aspects; Spirituality in literature; Mass media; Christianity in literature
Description: "This volume examines pop-culture spirituality, or "postmodern sacred," showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly "unreal" texts to gain a second-hand experience of transcendence and belief. It shows how today's pervasive, saturated media culture has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary and shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The return of the religious and the postmodern sacred; title: The postmodern sacred; title: Virtual religion: techniques of the postmodern sacred; title: "Something up there": transcendental gesturing in new age-influenced texts; title: Of gods and monsters: metaphor and the postmodern sacred; title: Buffy and Xena: polytheisms on-screen; title: Whither Leonardo Da Vinci? new age gnosticism; title: Christ figures and the messianic in The lord of the rings; title: The cultural logic of postmodern Christianity: the Christian right and popular culture; title: The Islamic other and SFF responses to 9/11; title: Good, evil and ethics: morality and all that stuff; title: Conclusion: Is there an outside to capital?.