Journal Article Analysis
Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred
Article’s author is Amos St.Germain from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He basically provides a summary of the book. Amos St. Germain identifies key elements and condenses important information into his analysis. Through this article the author describes as this book shows through its chapters as religion and popular culture are related under different points of view. In his first paragraph he also recommends this book for its interesting content.
Through the condensed summary provided by Amos we see how the author of this book relates religion to different elements from the popular culture. This book considers ways in which American cultural products have played an important role in creating contradictory religious identities. For example, he mentions the relation between Bible and modern American Christianity. It analysis makes sense of the relationship between Christianity and American popular culture analyzing the various ways in which Christians in the United States read and interpret Bible in the United States.
Amos as well shows in this article how religion and sports in the United States are related. For example, he mention to Roger Angell which is a known by his several memorable essays in baseball. Advertising is other element of our popular culture that according with Amos is reflected in the third chapter of this book. He mention to Kate Moss who is a known fashion model that appears in famous advertising campaigns. Guess jeans is as well other representative element of American Cultue mentioned in this boook. Movies and TVreligious programming are analyzed by the author of this book mentioning for example Mel Gibson’s film The passion of Christ(2004).
Finally, Amos try to convence us with this article to read this interesting, well written, and entertainment book. He consider that Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred contributes to popular cultures studies. Religion, sports, advertising, popular music, known films, and popular video games are some of the elements of popular culture that are closely related to religion under the analysis done by Richard W. Santana and Gregory Erickson, Jefferson, NC: McFarland in this book.
Reference
Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. Richard W.Santana and Gregory Erickson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Franklin University database Article by Amos St. Germain (2007) American Cultural Studies.
Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred
Article’s author is Amos St.Germain from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He basically provides a summary of the book. Amos St. Germain identifies key elements and condenses important information into his analysis. Through this article the author describes as this book shows through its chapters as religion and popular culture are related under different points of view. In his first paragraph he also recommends this book for its interesting content.
Through the condensed summary provided by Amos we see how the author of this book relates religion to different elements from the popular culture. This book considers ways in which American cultural products have played an important role in creating contradictory religious identities. For example, he mentions the relation between Bible and modern American Christianity. It analysis makes sense of the relationship between Christianity and American popular culture analyzing the various ways in which Christians in the United States read and interpret Bible in the United States.
Amos as well shows in this article how religion and sports in the United States are related. For example, he mention to Roger Angell which is a known by his several memorable essays in baseball. Advertising is other element of our popular culture that according with Amos is reflected in the third chapter of this book. He mention to Kate Moss who is a known fashion model that appears in famous advertising campaigns. Guess jeans is as well other representative element of American Cultue mentioned in this boook. Movies and TVreligious programming are analyzed by the author of this book mentioning for example Mel Gibson’s film The passion of Christ(2004).
Finally, Amos try to convence us with this article to read this interesting, well written, and entertainment book. He consider that Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred contributes to popular cultures studies. Religion, sports, advertising, popular music, known films, and popular video games are some of the elements of popular culture that are closely related to religion under the analysis done by Richard W. Santana and Gregory Erickson, Jefferson, NC: McFarland in this book.
Reference
Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. Richard W.Santana and Gregory Erickson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Franklin University database Article by Amos St. Germain (2007) American Cultural Studies.
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