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America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) - Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) - Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Series: Catholic Practice in North America
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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For nine years, Stephen Colbert's persona "Colbert"-a Republican
superhero and parody of conservative political pundits-informed
audiences on current events, politics, social issues, and religion
while lampooning conservative political policy, biblical
literalism, and religious hypocrisy. To devout, vocal, and
authoritative lay Catholics, religion is central to both the actor
and his most famous character. Yet many viewers wonder, "Is Colbert
a practicing Catholic in real life or is this part of his act?"
America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) examines the
ways in which Colbert challenges perceptions of Catholicism and
Catholic mores through his faith and comedy. Religion and the
foibles of religious institutions have served as rich fodder for
scores of comedians over the years. What set "Colbert" apart on his
Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, was that his critical
observations were made more powerful and harder to ignore because
he approached religious material not from the predictable stance of
the irreverent secular comedian but from his position as one of the
faithful. He is a Catholic celebrity who can bridge critical
outsider and participating insider, neither fully reverent nor
fully irreverent. Providing a digital media ethnography and
rhetorical analysis of Stephen Colbert and his character from 2005
to 2014, author Stephanie N. Brehm examines the intersection
between lived religion and mass media, moving from an exploration
of how Catholicism shapes Colbert's life and world towards a
conversation about how "Colbert" shapes Catholicism. Brehm provides
historical context by discovering how "Colbert" compares to other
Catholic figures, such Don Novello, George Carlin, Louis C.K., and
Jim Gaffigan, who have each presented their views of Catholicism to
Americans through radio, film, and television. The last chapter
provides a current glimpse of Colbert on The Late Show, where he
continues to be voice for Catholicism on late night, now to an even
broader audience. America's Most Famous Catholic (According to
Himself) also explores how Colbert carved space for Americans who
currently define their religious lives through absence,
ambivalence, and alternatives. Brehm reflects on the complexity of
contemporary American Catholicism as it is lived today in the
often-ignored form of Catholic multiplicity: thinking Catholics,
cultural Catholics, cafeteria Catholics, and lukewarm Catholics, or
what others have called Colbert Catholicism, an emphasis on the joy
of religion in concert with the suffering. By examining the humor
in religion, Brehm allows us to see clearly the religious elements
in the work and life of comedian Stephen Colbert.
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