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An Introduction to Religion and Religious Themes in Rock Music.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (482 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780773418431
  • 0773418431
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 800
LOC classification:
  • BL1050
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Historical Venom of Rock Critics -- Social and Historical Context of Rock Music -- Characteristics of Rock `N' Roll -- Rock Music, Popular Culture, and Religion -- Three Goals -- ch. 2 Human Situation -- Characterizations of the World -- Within the Confines of Loneliness -- Boredom, Angst, Fear, and Despair -- Being in Captivity -- Religious Problems -- Responses to the Human Situation -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 3 Self, Other and God -- Cry of the Self -- Other and the Life of Dialogue -- Authentic and Inauthentic Self -- Dialogue and the Eternal Thou -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 4 Faith and Love -- River of Faith -- Journey of Faith -- Friendly Kind of Love -- Passionate Love -- Highest Love -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 5 Supernatural Beings -- God Alive and Dead -- Critical Perspectives on God -- ^ Dark Side of the Supernatural -- Goddess -- Metaphorical Goddess of Rock `N' Roll -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 6 Jesus, Superstar, Clown, and Antichrist -- Becoming Contemporary with Jesus -- Jesus the Superstar -- Jesus the Clown -- Significance of the Clown -- Jesus as Mother and Rebel -- Rock Antichrist -- Path of Salvation and Visions of Unity -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 7 Time and Death -- Terror of History -- Encounter with Death -- Suicide, War, and Murder -- Death of the Famous and Not so Famous -- Human Responses to Death -- Memory, Love and Death -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 8 Eschatological Themes -- End of Time -- Earthly Paradise -- Interior Paradise -- Search for a Transcendent Paradise -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 9 Prophetic Thread -- Issues of War and Peace -- Socio-Economic Issues -- Issues of Violence -- Issues of Racism and Ecology -- ^ Issues of Religion -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 10 Is Rock Music a Religion? -- Ritual Activity.
Summary: Olson produces a case study in creative pedagogy that incorporates popular culture into religious studies. Utilizing rock music to discuss religious themes provides a new and unique approach to theological topics. The book does not only focus on overtly religious rock music but rather posits that lyrical usage of themes by rock musicians over the years has inevitably come across themes from world religions sometimes even unbeknownst to themselves.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)482142

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Olson produces a case study in creative pedagogy that incorporates popular culture into religious studies. Utilizing rock music to discuss religious themes provides a new and unique approach to theological topics. The book does not only focus on overtly religious rock music but rather posits that lyrical usage of themes by rock musicians over the years has inevitably come across themes from world religions sometimes even unbeknownst to themselves.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Historical Venom of Rock Critics -- Social and Historical Context of Rock Music -- Characteristics of Rock `N' Roll -- Rock Music, Popular Culture, and Religion -- Three Goals -- ch. 2 Human Situation -- Characterizations of the World -- Within the Confines of Loneliness -- Boredom, Angst, Fear, and Despair -- Being in Captivity -- Religious Problems -- Responses to the Human Situation -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 3 Self, Other and God -- Cry of the Self -- Other and the Life of Dialogue -- Authentic and Inauthentic Self -- Dialogue and the Eternal Thou -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 4 Faith and Love -- River of Faith -- Journey of Faith -- Friendly Kind of Love -- Passionate Love -- Highest Love -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 5 Supernatural Beings -- God Alive and Dead -- Critical Perspectives on God -- ^ Dark Side of the Supernatural -- Goddess -- Metaphorical Goddess of Rock `N' Roll -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 6 Jesus, Superstar, Clown, and Antichrist -- Becoming Contemporary with Jesus -- Jesus the Superstar -- Jesus the Clown -- Significance of the Clown -- Jesus as Mother and Rebel -- Rock Antichrist -- Path of Salvation and Visions of Unity -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 7 Time and Death -- Terror of History -- Encounter with Death -- Suicide, War, and Murder -- Death of the Famous and Not so Famous -- Human Responses to Death -- Memory, Love and Death -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 8 Eschatological Themes -- End of Time -- Earthly Paradise -- Interior Paradise -- Search for a Transcendent Paradise -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 9 Prophetic Thread -- Issues of War and Peace -- Socio-Economic Issues -- Issues of Violence -- Issues of Racism and Ecology -- ^ Issues of Religion -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 10 Is Rock Music a Religion? -- Ritual Activity.

English.