Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture by Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- 304pp
- Sales Rank: 406,814
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- Publisher: Westview Press
- Format: Paperback, 304pp
- Sales Rank: 406,814
- ISBN-13: 9780813344058
- ISBN: 0813344050
- Edition Description: REV
Synopsis
By appropriating the very force it battles—popular culture—Christian fundamentalism now employs entertainment media to win converts to the armies of God.
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Biography
Shirley R. Steinberg is an associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and the director of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. She is the founding editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, and her numerous books include Media Literacy (with Donaldo Macedo); the award-winning Encyclopedia of Contemporary Youth Culture (with Priya Parmar and Birgit Richard); and Kinderculture and The Miseducation of the West (with Joe L. Kincheloe).
The late Joe L. Kincheloe was the Canada Research Chair of Critical Pedagogy at McGill University in Montreal and the founder of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. His books include Teachers as Researchers, City Kids, Kinderculture, and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights award–winning Measured Lies.
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