Book 2012
Postmodern Sacred
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Fantasy literature
- History and criticism
- Postmodernism
- Popular culture
- Religious aspects
- Spirituality in literature
- Mass media
- Christianity in literature
"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 utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary and shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world"--Provided by publisher.