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Gods Behaving Badly : Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture by Pete Ward, Pete Ward is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gods Behaving Badly : Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture about?
From Britney and Brangelina to Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, Western society is obsessed with its American idols and gods of the red carpet. We worship their triumphs, judge their sins, and maintain vigil at their deaths. Can our fixation on and devotion to celebrity culture itself be considered a religion? If not, why do we use religious terminology to describe these stars and our actions towards them? Gods Behaving Badly examines the blurred boundary between popular culture and religion--on
Who reads Gods Behaving Badly : Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Pete Ward, Pete Ward
- Publisher
- Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781602587236
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Science, Christian, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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