Secular steeples : popular culture and the religious imagination /

Ostwalt, Conrad Eugene, 1959-

Secular steeples : popular culture and the religious imagination / Conrad Ostwalt. - Harrisburg, PA : Trinity Press International, c2003. - xi, 231 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.

Space/place/pre-text -- Megachurches -- Love valley : the sacralization of secular space -- Narrative/text -- Religion and "secular" texts -- Image/post-text -- Movies and the apocalypse -- Conclusion: Theological appropriation of secularization : a cooperative model.



1177983 QBI

2002153594


Popular culture--Religious aspects.
Religion and culture.
Secularism.

BL 65 .C8 / O88 2003