Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States

by Gary Laderman

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A powerful case to embrace a broad view of religion as genuinely religious practices can be found in the unlikeliest of places - science labs, sports games, cinemas and concerts. Religion scholar Laderman shows readers how pilgrimages to Graceland, for example, don't just seem religious, they are religious - enacting traditional, ritualistic patterns of Christianity. In a dramatic reframing of the sacred and the secular, an American landscape blooming with devotions and mythologies is exposed.
  • ISBN10 1595584846
  • ISBN13 9781595584847
  • Publish Date 16 December 2010 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint The New Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English