Varieties of Christian Experience in Popular Culture

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This is a panel about the ways that popular culture mediates “Christian” experience, with special focus on the issue of family values. By focusing on the production of religiously marked figures such as Ted Haggard and Mitt Romney, and on mass mediated texts such as The Di Vinci Code and the Left Behind Series, we hope to isolate some of the forms, ideological investments, and affective ties that cumulatively produce the varieties of “Christian” experience in popular culture.

Sub Unit

• Religious Communication Association

Chair

• Dilip P Gaonkar, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Respondent

• Christian O Lundberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Session Organizer

• Christian O Lundberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill