Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism - eBook
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Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism - eBook  -     By: Vincent F. Rocchio

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Title: Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism - eBook
By: Vincent F. Rocchio
Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: Cascade Books
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN: 9781498209809
ISBN-13: 9781498209809
Stock No: WW109898EB

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Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the cultural marketplace, the author argues that Christianity's inability to effectively contest the ideology of secular humanism is not a theological shortcoming, but rather a communications problem: the institutional church is too wedded to an outmoded aesthetic of Christianity to communicate effectively. Privileging authority and obedience over the egalitarian and transformative goal of Christianity, the church fails to recognize how it undermines the vitality of the Christian narrative and message. In the absence of a more compelling vision offered by the official church, a new aesthetic can be found forming within the margins of popular culture texts. Despite its past failures in representing the Bible in mainstream film and television, the culture industry now offers more compelling versions of core Christian theology without even realizing it--within the margins of the main storylines. This book analyzes the aesthetic principles employed by these appropriations and articulations of Christian discourse as a means of theorizing what a new aesthetic of Christianity might look like.

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Vincent F. Rocchio, PhD, is one of the founding members of the Ekklesia Project. He has taught at Dartmouth College, The College of the Holy Cross, and John Cabot University in Rome. He is author of Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism and Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture.

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