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The Postmodern Sacred - Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres (Paperback)
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The Postmodern Sacred - Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres (Paperback)
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[From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files,
recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and
produce a sense of the religious. This thoughtful volume examines
this 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.
Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the
lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena,
the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic ""Other""
and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and
popular culture. Today's pervasive, saturated media culture, this
work shows, has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary, so
that popular culture is not only powerfully shaped by the
discourses of religion, but also shapes how the religious appears
and is experienced in the contemporary world.]
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