The God Tube Uncovering the Hidden Spiritual Message in Pop Culture |
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| Author:
| Lawler, James |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8126-9648-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Publisher: | Open Court
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $31.95 |
Book Description:
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Beginning with
The Simpsons and ending with
The Da Vinci Code, the entertaining sections in this book uncover profound philosophical and religious ideas in pop culture. Each work covered contains a challenge to both standard religious orthodoxy and secular science. In
The Simpsons Movie, although Homer must be dragged off his couch to church, he experiences a spiritual epiphany with an Inuit shaman woman. In the film of
The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon...
More DescriptionBeginning with The Simpsons and ending with The Da Vinci Code, the entertaining sections in this book uncover profound philosophical and religious ideas in pop culture. Each work covered contains a challenge to both standard religious orthodoxy and secular science. In The Simpsons Movie, although Homer must be dragged off his couch to church, he experiences a spiritual epiphany with an Inuit shaman woman. In the film of The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon proposes that the human is the divine.” The author makes a striking case here for pop culture as a hotbed of alternative thinking.