RE220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Statista, Mark Pendergrast, Ken Burns
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David chidester"s the church of baseball, the fetish of coca-cola and the potlach of. Rock n" roll has provided us with two oppositions when it comes to realizing whether or not popular culture can function as religion. Apple inc. is part of our popular culture, which can be viewed as religion due to its sense of global uniformity, commonalities with religious ideals and its use of the system of symbols. On the other hand apple inc. can also not be perceived as religion, as it is after all a monopoly, individualistic and a fetish that reflects objects being of unstable value and uncertain meaning. According to buck o"neil, he understands baseball to be a religion. His first argument about how the church of baseball reflects the idea that a sense of continuity is happening in a constantly changing american society (chidester 1996, 745).
