Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay provides a review of a collection of one of the most (in)famous film critics of all time, Pauline Kael.
Later this year, I’ll be presenting a paper on the ethical/theological/moral implications of video games. As luck would have it, a public discussion over whether or not video games qualify as art broke out in on-line and print media over the past few months. Film critic Roger Ebert oppossed this notion while arguments for it [...]
Heather Hendershot’s Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture is one of several recent books that provides an insightful analysis of evangelical Christians’ relationship with popular culture. Like her contemporary, Daniel Radosh, Hendershot also takes a sympathetic approach to the topic, recognizing that evangelicals make significant meaning out of their interactions with [...]
In her book, Brands of Faith, Mara Einstein argues that religion is a competing commodity in a larger marketplace. James B. Twitchell takes this notion closely to heart and runs with it in his book, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart to In Your Face. He argues that denominational differences have [...]
As part of my dissertation research, I’ve been looking into the Prosperity Gospel, the Health and Wealth Gospel, or the Name It and Claim It Gospel…whatever you like to call it. For those of you who don’t know, it’s basically the notion that God wants us to be physically wealthy here and now. Ironically, those [...]
There can be no doubt that brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are perhaps two of the most original, visionary filmmakers working today. In fact, when they have run their course, their filmography will no doubt stand out as one of the greatest in American film history. If there is any credence to the auteur theory, [...]
Angelology is one of the latest entries in the recent spate of religious adventure fiction made most popular by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Danielle Trussoni’s novel will unfortunately most likely not get the attention of its, in many ways, inferior predecessors, but it is one captivating summer read that [...]
A secular, humanist, non-practicing Jewish writer from New York takes a year-long tour through evangelical Christian pop-culture? Yeah…I know how that book’s going to turn out…or at least I thought I did. Daniel Radosh’s Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture is one of the most insightful, entertaining books I’ve ever [...]
I absolutely love and am fascinated with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives. To me, they speak far more about our current theological, philosophical, and political state of affairs than they ever do about how it’s all going to go down in the end (which despite popular evangelical opinion is what they were always intended to do). [...]
Mara Einstein argues, in her book Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age, that we live in a culture of “planned obsolescence.” This is hard to deny given the frequency with which, for example, Apple releases new iPods and iPhones. Yet she turns her attention to the effects that such consumerism has on [...]
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