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Theology and Prince (Paperback)
Jonathan H. Harwell, Rev. Katrina E. Jenkins; Contributions by Rev. Dr. Suzanne Castle, Racheal Harris, Zada Johnson, …
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Prince was a spiritual and musical enigma who sought to transcend
race and gender through his words, music, and fashion. Raised as a
Seventh-Day Adventist and later going door-to-door as a Jehovah's
Witness, he expressed his faith overtly and allegorically,
erotically and poetically. Theology and Prince is an edited
collection on theology and the life, music, and films of Prince
Rogers Nelson. Written for academics yet accessible for the
layperson, this book explores Prince's ideas of the afterlife; race
and social justice activism; eroticism; veganism; spiritual alter
egos (with a deep dive into the dark character of "Spooky
Electric"); a queer listening of the Purple Rain album; the
theology of the Graffiti Bridge film (featuring interviews with
co-star Ingrid Chavez and other collaborators), and a story from
Texas of a Christian worship service designed around Prince's music
in the wake of his passing. Those interested in theology and
popular culture; scholars of social justice, racial identity,
LGBTQ+ studies, and gender studies; as well as Prince "fams" will
find new ways of viewing Prince's old and new works.
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Theology and Prince (Hardcover)
Jonathan H. Harwell, Rev. Katrina E. Jenkins; Contributions by Rev. Dr. Suzanne Castle, Racheal Harris, Zada Johnson, …
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R5,737
R2,363
Discovery Miles 23 630
Save R3,374 (59%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Prince was a spiritual and musical enigma who sought to transcend
race and gender through his words, music, and fashion. Raised as a
Seventh-Day Adventist and later going door-to-door as a Jehovah's
Witness, he expressed his faith overtly and allegorically,
erotically and poetically. Theology and Prince is an edited
collection on theology and the life, music, and films of Prince
Rogers Nelson. Written for academics yet accessible for the
layperson, this book explores Prince's ideas of the afterlife; race
and social justice activism; eroticism; veganism; spiritual alter
egos (with a deep dive into the dark character of "Spooky
Electric"); a queer listening of the Purple Rain album; the
theology of the Graffiti Bridge film (featuring interviews with
co-star Ingrid Chavez and other collaborators), and a story from
Texas of a Christian worship service designed around Prince's music
in the wake of his passing. Those interested in theology and
popular culture; scholars of social justice, racial identity,
LGBTQ+ studies, and gender studies; as well as Prince "fams" will
find new ways of viewing Prince's old and new works.
[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.]
Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful
and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the
profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received
much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is
the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates
the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from
her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone
Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological
turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D.
Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians
such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way,
Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson
stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of
the sacred.
Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful
and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the
profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received
much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is
the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates
the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from
her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone
Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological
turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D.
Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians
such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way,
Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson
stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of
the sacred.
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