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Those preliminary chapters lay the foundation for what follows, because the authors of the following chapters exhibit the slippery strains among “religion” and “culture” in a lot of this examine. it's difficult to define the place one starts and the opposite ends, as you may glance to ways in which spiritual traditions are represented in pop culture, in addition to 1 JOHN C. LYDEN the ways in which pop culture has been influenced (sometimes unwittingly) via faith; you'll be able to glance to noticeable non secular content material in well known shape, in addition to pop culture itself mimicking the kinds and perform of faith. The authors use numerous equipment as they technique their matters, yet they're in general educated through the concept of a “circuit of culture,” because it has been understood through cultural stories technique, which insists that we will basically comprehend parts of pop culture (in relation to faith, or for that topic the rest) by means of analyzing the methods of construction, what's produced, the way it is sent or advertised, and the way it truly is bought through a inhabitants. The latter exhibits that artifacts and practices purely have that means whilst appropriated, and that a number of the items of pop culture will be given different meanings reckoning on the interpretations and makes use of given to them by way of the populations that acceptable them. there isn't any unmarried means during which a given element of pop culture may be interpreted religiously, and during this research we will see the multivalent nature of either tradition and faith reflected absolutely of their intersection. half II, “Encounters with well known culture,” includes 3 separate sections. “Mediated encounters” explores non secular encounters via digital transmission, similar to whereas staring at tv (news or leisure) or film, hearing song (on the radio or in different formats), whereas enjoying videogames or interactive net-based video games, whereas undertaking Internet-based social networks, or via advertisements. those are now and again very lately built media, and so they have replaced the way tradition in addition to faith is conveyed and understood; non secular groups have used those media, yet all of those media additionally express principles approximately faith frequently even if they don't intend to take action, and the perform of utilizing those media additionally has “religion-like” components to it. part B (“Material encounters”) explores non secular encounters with fabric (physical) goods: in print media (in written or photograph form), whereas cooking (or consuming, or drinking), in style, and with video games, toys, and “tchotchkes” (gewgaws, trinkets, kitsch). those different types of fabric encounters point out the physicality of expertise inside of either faith and pop culture, and of their parts of overlap. part C (“Locative encounters”) explores spiritual encounters with pop culture in actual house: whereas procuring, at social occasions, whereas conducting (or attending) sporting activities, and whereas traveling monuments of civic and patriotic significance. The large diversity of sorts of encounters exhibits how extensive the learn of pop culture has turn into, however it additionally exhibits that faith and spiritual rules and practices were implicated in all of those kinds in addition.