The postmodern sacred : popular culture spirituality in the science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy genres / Emily McAvan.
"This volume examines 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. It shows how today's pervasive, saturated media culture has...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co., Inc.,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- The return of the religious and the postmodern sacred
- The postmodern sacred
- Virtual religion: techniques of the postmodern sacred
- "Something up there": transcendental gesturing in new age-influenced texts
- Of gods and monsters: metaphor and the postmodern sacred
- Buffy and Xena: polytheisms on-screen
- Whither Leonardo Da Vinci? new age gnosticism
- Christ figures and the messianic in The lord of the rings
- The cultural logic of postmodern Christianity: the Christian right and popular culture
- The Islamic other and SFF responses to 9/11
- Good, evil and ethics: morality and all that stuff
- Conclusion: Is there an outside to capital?.