SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Visual Artifact, Emic And Etic, Lady Gaga
22 Jan 2013
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Personal story about being betrayed by boyfriend, being beyond repentance in society (fame hooker, prostitute wench ) Kiss of judas as alerting to betrayal. Reception of product not as popular as others but still sold a lot. In relation to environment, resources and practices of everyday life: how pc shapes religious belief and practice, how religion is represented in pc, how religious groups relate to pc. Popular culture serving religious functions in society: social, existential/hermeneutical, transcendent, (common features of all religions) How religious people might undertake a mission to society and to pop culture: suspicion, appropriation, middle way (via media) - appreciative and suspicious. Using pop cultural texts as material for theological reflection: exploring relation to biblical texts, exploring relation to theological questions, exploring pc as source of methods for how to do theology. Approaches scholars use to talk about pop culture artifact.
