Bøger af Jeffrey H. Mahan

The emergence of a digital culture has radically challenged assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain relationships, and how people follow and give authority to leaders. This book explores the lessons digital culture offers as new types of congregational networks become popular and effective avenues for ministry.

The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volumegives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular cultureprovides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectivescontains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools