Popular Culture in the Learning Resource Center

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

the internet, religion, and popular culture

this paper tries to study the complex relationship between religion, popular culture and the internet. the internet not only prepares some facilities for religion, but also it’s a site for a new interaction between religion and popular culture. first, the paper points out five features of the internet which help to extend and promote the religious communication in the cyberspace: 1. deterritori...

Is Commercial Culture Popular Culture?: A Question for Popular Communication Scholars

This essay compares commercial culture with popular culture, reviewing different conceptualizations of the terms. It posits that there are significant differences, but that commercial culture increasingly intrudes on other forms of culture. The essay argues that popular communication scholars are well positioned to develop new perspectives and techniques to understand hybrid versions of popular...

The Evolution of the Vampire in Fiction and Popular Culture