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This book is a fascinating exploration into where discussion and
deliberation of religious and spiritual concerns takes place as
participation in traditional religion declines It explores how the
complex and fantastical worlds of speculative television have
become the place where theological questions and issues are now
negotiated, understood, and formed It examines how shows such as
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Westworld invite their viewers and
fans to engage with and imagine concepts traditionally reserved for
religious spaces The book is informed by recent trends in both fan
studies and religious studies, and with an emphasis on practice as
well as belief It will resonate with scholars and upper-level
students in the areas of religion, television studies, popular
culture, fan studies, media studies, and philosophy
The United States is the world's primary creator and exporter of
popular mass culture and arguably one of the most religious
countries in modern history. As a result, the coexistence of
American religion with popular culture has created a fertile yet
caustic environment for new religious belief structures, new texts,
and new worldviews that are uniquely American. This work considers
ways in which American television, advertising, music, and video
games have played a significant role in creating, representing, and
influencing contradictory religious identities. The authors examine
three distinct segments of popular culture that ""rescript the
sacred,"" including popular religious texts (e.g. the Christian
fantasy novels of Frank Peretti), secular works that nonetheless
reflect and influence popular religions (e.g. Buffy the Vampire
Slayer), and works that contain a central element of religious
content but no clear didactic intent (e.g. The Da Vinci Code).
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and
humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma,
probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and
explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature.
Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and
non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap
in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four
parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern
literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it
analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it
demonstrates how heresy operates as an artistic stimulant. Rather
than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and
non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the
essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the
dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a
critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of
disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.
Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels
to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce -
particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake - as a prism to explore
how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we read,
write, and think about books today. Erickson argues that the study
of classical, medieval, and modern debates over heresy and
orthodoxy provide new ways of understanding modernist literature
and literary theory. Using Joyce's works as a springboard to
explore different perspectives and intersections of 20th century
literature and the modern literary and religious imagination, this
book gives us new insights into how our modern and "secular"
reading practices unintentionally reflect how we understand our
religious histories.
Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels
to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce –
particularly Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake – as a prism to
explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we
read, write, and think about books today. Erickson argues that the
study of classical, medieval, and modern debates over heresy and
orthodoxy provide new ways of understanding modernist literature
and literary theory. Using Joyce’s works as a springboard to
explore different perspectives and intersections of 20th century
literature and the modern literary and religious imagination, this
book gives us new insights into how our modern and “secular”
reading practices unintentionally reflect how we understand our
religious histories.
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