RE220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonio Gramsci, Paul Tillich, Frankfurt School
Document Summary
Lesson 1: the field of religion & popular culture. Typology: a set of categories or types. Forbes and mahan present four categories that the relationship between religion and popular culture can be fit into. Religious studies: the objective scientific study of a broad category known as religion or religions. Memorate: a memory plate of all the artefacts a particular human society has made. Hegemony: a term employed by antonio gramsci to describe the process whereby the values of the elites are presented and accepted as universal ideologies, even though they only benefit the elites. Popular culture as both mirror of and influence on society. While all cultural products are manifestations of their creators, the ones that become popular tell us something about the audience. Religious people, systems and institutions hold specific beliefs and values. When religious beliefs and values are turned into culture and become popular, it means that to a certain extent the audience thinks they are true/acceptable.
