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Religion and Popular Culture Popular Religion

What is Religion? Religion, “a system of thought, feeling, and action that is shared by a group and that gives the members an object of devotion; a code of behavior by which individuals may judge the personal and social consequences of their actions; and a frame of reference by which individuals may relate to their group and their universe. Usually, religion concerns itself with that which transcends the known, the natural, or the expected; it is an acknowledgment of the extraordinary, the mysterious, and the supernatural. The religious consciousness generally recognizes a transcendent, sacred order and elaborates a technique to deal with the inexplicable or unpredictable elements of human experience in the world or beyond it.” Belief, ritual, experience, doctrine, worldview, community, institution…

Popular Religion Popular Religion : “non-official, non-elite, unorganized, eclectic and lived religion… It does not emphasize the importance of scriptures, literary tradition, institution, clergies or doctrinal purity. It is syncretistic and implicit in its nature.”

Religion, Television & Belief Explicitly “religious” dramas - Touched by an Angel, etc. “Flattens” religious doctrine? Theological messages: God is love, God has a plan (unknowable), God exists… Evil isn’t God’s fault… anything else?

Religion,Television, and Belief Talk shows… –Attesting to the Supernatural Demonic possession Angel visitations Near Death Experiences Hauntings

Religion,Television, and Belief Dramas, “Reality” shows… –Ghost Whisperer –Ghost Hunters –Ghost Trackers –Supernatural –Retellings of folkloric, pop culture beliefs, reivigorating supernatural in modern world?

Religion and Television portrayals of Religious Affiliation Law and Order –Religion as short-hand for character traits (religious stereotyping) –Religion as moral reasoning (Justice vs Law…) –Religion as destructive force (fanatics, cultists, terrorists…)

Religion, Television, and Ritual Television as surrogate religious ritual? –Judge Judy and Dr. Laura - modern day confessionals? –“substitutionary catharsis?”

Religion, Ritual and Pop Culture Pop Culture Tourism as Religious Ritual - Pilgrimage? –Pilgrimage to Graceland? –Pilgrimage to Star Trek conventions? –Pilgrimage to Grateful Dead concerts?

Is Popular Religion really ‘pop’? “Chevrolet Presents: Come Together and Worship - 16 concerts with top Christian rock bands across the Southeast and the preaching of Texas pastor, Rev. Max Lucado.” WWJD? (What would Jesus Drive?) Vs

Trickle down, Trickle up? Theories of popular religion - the trickle down theory - religion starts with orthodoxy, trickles down to the masses, who reinterpret, appropriate for own uses, etc. - pop religion as “degraded” form of “orthodox” religion. Trickle up - religion starts with folk belief, practice, becomes codified over time, subject to continual renewal from popular level.

Popular Religion and Popular Culture Lowest common denominator - “mass culture”? Cultural mirror?- Maintaining the Status quo? Subversive of orthodoxy?