The sacralisation of popular culture as adolescent lived spirituality

Spirituality as a lived experience: exploring the essence of spirituality for women in late life.

Against the backdrop of a dramatic increase in the number of individuals living longer, particularly older women, it is vital that researchers explore the intersection of spirituality, gender, and aging. In this qualitative study of six women aged 80 and older, I explore, using, multiple, in-depth interviews, the experiences of spirituality over the life course. A hermeneutic phenomenological a...

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...

Women undergoing breast diagnostics: the lived experience of spirituality.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore perceptions of spirituality in women who had undergone a breast diagnostic experience. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative, phenomenologic study using Giorgi's approach. SETTING An outpatient comprehensive breast assessment center. PARTICIPANTS 20 Caucasian women, aged 30-89, who had just completed the diagnostic process, including definitive diagnosis, regarding a...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Mickey Mouse as Icon: Taking Popular Culture Seriously

tanding in front of Cinderella’s castle at Walt Disney World is a statue of two figures, one tall and one short, holding hands like parent and child. The tall figure is a representation of Walt Disney himself, evoking memories for baby boomers who watched him as the genial narrator of Disney’s Sunday evening television show. The smaller figure, the child, is Mickey Mouse, including those tradem...