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  • 11
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    The material dimension of the Bible from print to digital text. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 414-432
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 414-432
    Keywords: American Bible Society ; Bible Publication and distribution ; New Testament Publication and distribution ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The chapter addresses the material dimension of the Bible in the discourse and practice of evangelical and Pentecostal Christians. According to surveys commissioned by the American Bible Society, announcements from big Bible publishers, and my own observations among contemporary evangelical and Pentecostal Christians in America, digital Bibles and Bible apps are on the rise. The transition from print culture to digital culture has not gone uncontested, and the discussions among Christians about the appropriateness of digital Bible media for religious practices points toward a contestation of the materiality of the medium through which God’s Word, and thereby God, is made present to religious practitioners. Thus the first part of the chapter introduces the frame of material culture studies and the approach to materiality in the study of religion. The second part discusses an analytic model suggested by the material religion scholar David Morgan along which a material analysis of religious objects should be developed. It will subsequently be applied to explore the relation between the Bible and its concrete materiality with a comparative focus on print and digital versions of the Bible.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.25
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    The impact of Adam and Eve on popular culture's understandings of women's roles and evolution. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 17-30
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 17-30
    Keywords: Adam ; Eve ; Bible Influence ; Women in popular culture ; Eden
    Abstract: This chapter looks at two areas of popular culture that frequently refer to Adam and Eve: society’s ongoing rethinking of the role of women and the dispute between evolutionary biologists and creationists. Movies like Fig Leaves (1926) and Adam’s Rib (1949) illustrate how contentious the “battle of the sexes” can be. These movies use Adam and Eve as shorthand for “man” and “woman” and avoid coming to any definitive conclusions about proper gender roles. Regarding the debate between evolution and creationism, the chapter explores the Creation Museum in Kentucky and the 2014 debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both Nye and Ham attempted to integrate faith with knowledge, mirroring the story of Eden itself.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.1
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    Moses and popular culture. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 31-45
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 31-45
    Keywords: Moses ; Bible Influence ; Popular culture
    Abstract: The story of Moses occurs in a plethora of popular culture mediums (fiction, songs, films, television, video games, comics, digital internet sources, etc.). This essay examines three themes in which Moses as a cultural artifact plays a crucial role in contemporary popular culture: visualizing Moses (Moses in film), learning from Moses (Moses as metaphor or analogy), and laughing at or with Moses (Moses in humor). Such a survey shows graphically the elasticity of Moses as a multivalent cultural artifact that has both influenced and continues to influence American culture. Indeed, while some extract religious meaning from the Moses story, others see parallels between Moses’ struggles and their own.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.2
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    Creation in American popular culture. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 145-161
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 145-161
    Keywords: Bible. Influence ; Creation ; Popular culture
    Abstract: The biblical creation accounts have always held the interest of interpreters, but during the history of the United States, major social and scientific changes have framed and profoundly influenced interpretations. Study of the reception history of the early chapters of Genesis provides ample illustration of the mutual interplay of influence between scriptural text and culture, artist and consumer, science and society, in a tangled web whose threads help us to understand our history and ultimately ourselves, as well as hopefully the texts in Genesis. There is benefit to focusing on music, television, film, and visual art that engages with the text of Genesis as well as with controversies about those stories at the divergence between those sacred texts as traditionally understood and aspects of modern life including (but not limited to) the natural sciences. In doing so we can obtain a clearer picture of the cultural impact and importance of Genesis and issues surrounding its interpretation than is easily accessible through a direct look at debates about either the text or modern science. The controversies themselves are often so entangled and heated as to thwart attempts at analysis. The ripples of broader cultural impact on the arts, and in genres of storytelling such as science fiction, illuminate the bigger picture as well as clarifying what aspects of the interpretation of these texts persist in driving controversy and maintaining the attention of North American culture in particular.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.9
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    Publishing in Bible and American popular culture. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 537-552
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 537-552
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Biblical scholars ; Popular culture
    Abstract: This essay is an examination of scholarship on the Bible and (American) popular culture. It reviews the history and assumptions of cultural studies and maps how this body of work influenced biblical scholarship after 1990. It surveys an array of examples of scholarship on the Bible and popular culture and concludes with some suggestions for future work. Specifically, this essay asks the following: How has interest in Bible and popular culture affected academic publishing? How did these trends emerge, and what assumptions prompt them? What new journals or series or reference works have appeared that are specifically devoted to this broad topic, and what are some ways that the Bible and popular culture have been treated therein?
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.31
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    The Book of Jonah in graphic novel adaptations of the Bible. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 381-398
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 381-398
    Keywords: Bible. Appreciation ; Graphic novels
    Abstract: This chapter defines graphic Bibles in relation to comics and graphic novels, identifying key aspects that impact the reader’s experience of the biblical material. Graphic Bibles are adaptations of biblical material that reflect a form of visual narratology. Through a comparative analysis of how four graphic Bibles (Testament, The Manga Bible, The Action Bible, and The Lion Comic Book Hero Bible) treat the story of Jonah, the chapter illustrates certain trends among graphic adaptations of the Bible. In every instance, whether or to what extent something is gained or lost in these productions vis-à-vis the biblical source material depends largely on one’s underlying perceptions of what sort of text the Bible is in the first place.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.23
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    Teaching Bible and American popular culture. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 521-536
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 521-536
    Keywords: Bible Study and teaching ; Popular culture
    Abstract: Educators often need help to design courses that lead to transformative learning. This paper outlines a practical approach to course design drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning, the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and current work in the field. Starting with relevant and urgent student learning outcomes (such as biblical literacy and spiritual quest), effective courses build a series of learning opportunities that enable students to discover content, construct meaning, and create something new. By engaging in the Bible with, in, and alongside of popular culture, students learn more about the Bible, culture, and the relationship between the two. The context of a meta-question requires them to reflect on such essential human concerns as the nature of authority, the construction of identity, and the contextualization of truth. In this way, learning becomes transformative.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.30
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    Introduction. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 3-13
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 3-13
    Keywords: Bible Influence ; Popular culture
    Abstract: This introduction explains why exploring the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture in the U.S. is an important endeavor by making two claims: no one comes to the Bible in an absolute or unmediated fashion; and popular culture isn’t simply one aspect of our society, it constitutes society as we know it. After addressing (or not) some definitional matters, we outline what readers can find in this Handbook by describing the macro and micro organization of the chapters, as well as the contents of those chapters. Throughout the introduction, we stress that our Handbook is meant to be a representative—not exhaustive—sampling of useful, quality, and accessible scholarship focused on specific topics within larger thematic or topical areas.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.32
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    Heaven after the loss of heaven. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 219-239
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 219-239
    Keywords: Bible Influence ; Popular culture ; Heaven
    Abstract: The chapter analyzes American pop-cultural constructions of heaven as attempts to deal with the symbolic loss of the traditional (biblical, Jewish, and Christian) conceptions of heaven. Accordingly, American pop-cultural heavens take the following forms: (1) heaven as the place for protagonists to “relearn the world” and so reestablish identity and achieve self-fulfillment following loss; (2) heaven as apotheosis of dominant ideologies such as the American Dream or neoconservative militarism, and so paradoxically both retaining and transforming our symbolic bonds with the ethereal realm; (3) heaven as intrinsically relational, a place of reunion with family and pets; (4) heaven made immanent on earth via near-death experiences, mind uploading, and virtual reality; (5) satirical and blasphemous heavens, combining resentment and anger at heaven’s irrevocable loss with an impossible desire for its renewal.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.12
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    How American newspaper comic strips portray God, angels, and humans. (2021)
    In:  The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture (2021) 399-413
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    ISBN: 9780190461416
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 399-413
    Keywords: Bible Influence ; New Testament Influence ; Popular culture ; Comic books, strips, etc. ; Newspapers
    Abstract: The comic strip as a mainstay of print and more recently online media is an American invention that began its development in the last decades of the 1800s. For many decades in the mid-twentieth century, comic strips were among the most widely disseminated forms of popular culture. With their succession of panels, pictures, and pithy perspectives, comics have come to cover an array of topics, including religion. This chapter looks at how the Bible (Old and New Testament) figures in comic strips, focusing specifically on three areas: the depiction of the divine, renderings of specific biblical texts, and how comic strips can function as sites in which religious identity and controversies play out. Relevant examples are drawn from several dozen strips. Special attention is also paid to a few, like Peanuts and BC, in which biblical imagery, ideology, and idiom are characteristically portrayed in distinctive ways.
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.24
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