Description
Book SynopsisThis first volume in the Cultural Exegesis series offers illustrative examples of how to read and understand cultural practices and social trends.
Table of ContentsA Reader's Guide: How to Use This Book
Part 1: Introduction: Toward a Theory of Cultural Interpretation
1. What Is Everyday Theology? How and Why Christians Should Read Culture
Part 2: Reading Cultural Texts
2. The Gospel according to Safeway: The Checkout Line and the Good Life
3. Despair and Redemption: A Theological Account of Eminem
4. The High Price of Unity: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
5. Between City and Steeple: Looking at Megachurch Architecture 6. Swords, Sandals, and Saviors: Visions of Hope in Ridley Scott's Gladiator
Part 3: Interpreting Cultural Trends
7. The Business of Busyness: Or, What Should We Make of Martha? 8. Welcome to the Blogosphere
9. Human 2.0: Transhumanism as a Cultural Trend
10. Fantasy Funerals and Other Designer Ways of Going Out in Style
Part 4: Concluding Untheoretical Postscript
11. Putting It into Practice: Weddings for Everyday Theologians
Glossary of Methodological Terms
