Explores various intersections between religion and the popular media, including music, news, advertising, the visual arts, literature, performance, and film. The course addresses how religions are represented in popular culture and what this says about American assumptions and attitudes about religions; how different forms of pop culture mimic or take the place of religions for people involved in them; how religious groups adopt and adapt, or shun and reject, forms of popular culture; and how popular culture is implicated in a capitalist, consumerist culture in ways that replicate "religion" as it h as been historically defined. This course fulfills the general education requirement in 300/400-level Religious Studies and in Intercultural Knowledge. [ 3 credits ]
RST-324: Religion and Popular Culture
Department
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Instructional Method
Lecture 100% in Person