"In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. This book tries to move away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues. Instead, Ostwalt …
In this provocative volume, Conrad Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, but rather that it shifts the authority to express religious ideals from the traditional, institutional church to other cultural entities, such as government and media.…
In this provocative volume, Conrad Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, but rather that it shifts the authority to express religious ideals from the traditional, institutional church to other cultural entities, such as government and media.…
"From The Greatest Story Ever Told to Jesus of Montreal to Shane, the figure of Jesus has made repeated - and varied - appearances in American cinema. In Reading the Gospels in the Dark, Richard Walsh brings "Jesus-films," the canonical gospels, and American culture into convers…
"From The Greatest Story Ever Told to Jesus of Montreal to Shane, the figure of Jesus has made repeated - and varied - appearances in American cinema. In Reading the Gospels in the Dark, Richard Walsh brings "Jesus-films," the canonical gospels, and American culture into convers…
