Course Information

POP GODS: RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCEOF POP CULTURE (ST 1488)

Term: 2024-2025 Winter Term

Faculty

Tripp Fuller

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Schedule

Sat, 8:00 AM - 4:20 PM (1/4/2025 - 1/4/2025) Location: MAIN GH 306
Sun, 12:30 PM - 6:30 PM (1/5/2025 - 1/5/2025) Location: MAIN GH 306
Mon, 8:00 AM - 4:20 PM (1/6/2025 - 1/6/2025) Location: MAIN GH 306

Description

This course traces the historical emergence and religious significance of popular culture in the West. In modernity, the locus of popular identity and meaning shifted from the church to the nation state and then later to the marketplace. Popular media tells stories to inscribe our lives with meaning and purpose, and challenge dominant assumptions about the good. Students will learn to exegete pop culture from a 21st-century Christian perspective in order to engage current realities.