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The Postmodern Sacred Popular Culture Spirituality in the Genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Fantastic Horror |
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著者 |
McAvan, Em (著)
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出版年月日 | 2007.08 |
ページ | 287 |
出版者 | Murdoch University |
出版サイト |
https://www.murdoch.edu.au/
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出版地 | Perth, Australia |
資料の種類 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
言語 | 英文=English |
学位 | 博士 |
学校 | Murdoch University |
学部・学科名 | Media, Communication and Culture |
指導教官 | Mishra, Vijay |
卒業年 | 2007 |
抄録 | In my thesis I argue that the return of the religious in contemporary culture has been in two forms the rise of so-called fundamentalisms in the established faiths-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, even Buddhist-and the rise of a New Age style spirituality that draws from aspects of those faiths even as it produces something distinctively different. I argue that this shift both produces post-modern media culture, and is itself always-already mediated through the realm of the fictional. Secular and profane are always entangled within one another, a constant and pervasive media presence that modulates the way that contemporary subjects experience themselves and their relationship to the spiritual. I use popular culture as an entry point, an entry point that can presume neither belief nor unbelief in its audiences, showing that it is unreal texts such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix and so on that we find religious symbols and ideas refracted through a postmodernist sensibility, with little regard for the demands of real world epistemology. I argue that it is in this interplay between traditional religions and New Age-ised spirituality in popular culture that the sacred truly finds itself in postmodernity. |
ヒット数 | 236 |
作成日 | 2023.05.03 |
更新日期 | 2023.07.12 |
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