ARTICULATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POP CULTURE IN FIVE ‘NERD’ AND ‘GEEK’ DENOMINATIONAL WEBSITES

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  • Luis Mauro Sa Martino Faculdade Cásper Líbero

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v19i1.35789

Keywords:

Midiatização da Religião, Entretenimento, Cultura Pop.

Abstract

At first, religion and pop culture belong to two distant realms of human experience. However, in recent decades, religion has been drawing on its secular media and entertainment counterparts to convey their message to broader audiences. This paper outlines the relationship between religion and popular culture in five websites that combine religious messages and entertainment such as action movies, comics, and TV series. The analysis of the texts, pictures, and products published in the website revealed three main ways through which popular culture articulates with denominational content: (1) the religion-entertainment link as an identity defining site; (2) the framing of pop characters in a religious context; and (3) popular culture as a trigger to discuss moral and religious issues. These findings are discusses based on studies on the mediatization of religion.

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Author Biography

Luis Mauro Sa Martino, Faculdade Cásper Líbero

Professor do PPG em Comunicação na Contemporaneidade. Doutor em Ciências Sociais pela PUC-SP.

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Published

2021-09-01

How to Cite

Martino, L. M. S. (2021). ARTICULATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POP CULTURE IN FIVE ‘NERD’ AND ‘GEEK’ DENOMINATIONAL WEBSITES. Contemporanea, 19(1), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v19i1.35789

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021)

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Artigos

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