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Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Symposium - October 21, 2011
- Caufield Campus
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Melbourne, Australia
- Introduction
- Established religions have unquestionably contributed significant themes and motifs to our popular culture, from the prodigal son to the Easter Bunny. On the other hand, alternative spiritualities, such as Paganism, Jediism, and the Otherkin, often utilise unanticipated source material within their beliefs, drawing on popular culture materials as readily as they engage with the more traditional locales of religious exploration. Simultaneously, there has been an increase in the representation of religious and spiritual themes within narrative across various media, not to mention the many relationships to be found between fictional narrative and more traditional religions. This symposium will explore the relationship between popular culture and religion from an interdisciplinary position, drawing together scholarship from many fields in order to shed light on this growing area of religious engagement.
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- Monash University
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