{"product_id":"9798765157985","title":"Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties","description":"\u003ch3\u003eTheology, Religion, and Pop Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eReligion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIlaria W. Biano\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligion \/ Spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edited collection illuminates how religion shaped what it meant to live, believe, and belong at the turn of the millennium.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nineteen-nineties occupy a paradoxical place in American cultural memory as both a space of nostalgia and profound socio-cultural transformation. In this edited collection, Ilaria W. Biano and her contributors consider a decade in which religion and spirituality were not confined to traditional institutions, but became deeply entangled with popular culture, shaping both public imagination and private practice. Both the Satanic Panic and the persistence of \"culture wars\" over school curricula, abortion, and civil rights pivotally informed the cultural production of that decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross eighteen chapters, Biano and her contributors discuss how the nineteen-nineties amplified and diversified the entanglement of religion and popular culture, embedding spirituality into new genres, formats, and technologies. The essays herein span subjects including Five Percenter Rap, \u003ci\u003eTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMagic: The Gathering,\u003c\/i\u003e revealing an arena where religion was performed, contested, and transformed. This collection, therefore, approaches the nineteen-nineties not as a backdrop for religion, but as a decade in which popular culture was one of the principal sites where religious meaning was renegotiated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIlaria W. Biano \u003c\/b\u003e(Ph.D., University of Turin) is an independent scholar from Italy who studies religion, spirituality, and popular culture.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765157985\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51197847601292,"sku":"9798765157985","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798765157985","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}