Christotainment; selling Jesus through popular culture.

9780813344058

Christotainment; selling Jesus through popular culture.

Ed. by Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe.

Westview Press

2009

303 pages

$30.00

Paperback

BR526

Steinberg (integrated studies in education, McGill U., Montreal) and Kincheloe (critical pedagogy, McGill U., Montreal) have edited this volume on the media strategies Christian fundamentalists use to engage such "enemies" as the entertainment industry, books and pop culture. Written for students and scholars of media communications as well as general readers, this collection of essays address such topics as political fundamentalist media empires, theocratic nationalism in the "NASCAR culture" and the marketing of children's movies, cartoons, toys and music that are Christian in theme. A critique of the cultural implications of Mel Gibson and his film The Passion of the Christ is also included.

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