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Popcultured: Thinking Christianly about Style, Media and Entertainment, (Paperback)

Name: Popcultured: Thinking Christianly about Style, Media and Entertainment, (Paperback)
Brand: Steve Turner
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Popcultured: Thinking Christianly about Style, Media and Entertainment, (Paperback)Popcultured Thinking Christianly about Style Media and Entertainment Paperback 9780830837687

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Publishers Weekly,Popular culture is often seen as, at worst, immoral and vapid and, at best, unrelated to spirituality. Turner, a pop-music journalist (who wrote the book U2: Rattle and Hum), argues that such views are faulty because popular culture is not only a gift of God but also a space of intentional creativity through which Christians can relate to the world at large. Turner tackles topics including film, celebrities, and comedy, addressing Christian concerns while articulately fleshing out the complexities of these different arenas of popular culture. Questions and "suggestions for action" at the end of each chapter ask readers to be more reflective about their daily experiences. Turner offers not only the tools for critical engagement of popular culture, but also an earnest exploration of what it means to consciously and unconsciously participate and create as Christians in the world. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Religion
Publication date
July, 2013
Pages
254
Subgenre
Christian Living

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There's no avoiding popular culture--we've been enculturated into it. What does it mean to be faithful Christians in a pop culture world? How do we think Christianly about celebrity and leisure? Some Christians try to abstain from "worldly" pursuits, while others consume culture indiscriminately, assuming it has little effect on them. But if Christ is Lord of all of life, then there ought to be Christian ways to engage with and appreciate popular culture.Steve Turner has spent his career chronicling and interviewing people from the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, art and literature. Now he provides an insider's guide to a wide range of entertainment pursuits, with biblical frameworks for understanding pop culture genres and artifacts. Turner explores

how movies use redemptive narratives and parables
ways journalistic headlines convey worldview assumptions
differences between famous people in the past and celebrities today
what ideas are communicated through clothing and fashion design
how technology changes our sense of what is real
and much more

God entrusts culture to us and gives us the ability to critique it, enjoy it and create it. This book will help you become a better cultural critic, consumer and creator.

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Religion

Publication date

July, 2013

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