The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture

Omtale

Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores:key issues of definition and of methodology religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture, including important non-Western spheres such as BollywoodThis Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work.