Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture

Download or read book Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture written by Slawomir Sztajer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural diversity and cultural change make it difficult to define and theorize cultural phenomena. This is especially apparent in the case of such cultural areas as religion and popular culture. This book presents ways to understand and explain the diversity and variability of religious and popular culture phenomena. The first part of this book focuses on the cognitive foundations and cultural dimensions of religious phenomena. The cognitive science of religion provides a new theoretical framework for explaining religious diversity and variability. The second part is dedicated to the study of selected phenomena of popular culture from the perspective distinctive to cultural anthropology. It attempts to bring into light this features of popular culture phenomena that have direct impact on cultural subjects.