The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory ed…
Part one of this book attends specifically to the phenomenon of dramatic performance and possible theological applications of it, part two considers various aspects of the performance of Christian identity and part three demonstrates how art forms may constitute faithful Christi…
The contributors to Faithful Performances reflect on the nature of artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of tradition and identity and consider various aspects of the performance of Christian identity by examining at worship, the interpretation of the Bible, C…
In The (Magic) Kingdom of God, Michael Budde offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the "global culture industries"--Increasingly powerful, centralized corporate conglomerates in television, advertising, marketing, movies, and the like - and their impact on Christian churches in…
