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Title: | Breaking the Sound Barrier, Breaking Faith: How Some Evangelical Christians Perceive Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Film |
Author(s): | Rendleman, Todd Darren |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Carolyn E. Taylor |
Department / Program: | Speech Communication |
Discipline: | Speech Communication |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Religion, General |
Abstract: | Overall, the participants' reactions to movies suggest a genre of response that revolves around the practices of spiritual discernment. Whether discerning what type of filmic content is appropriate to view or whether a character in a film is a "true" Christian, the participants' viewing practices are interwoven with their religious practices of spiritual discernment. Explaining a narrative code of conversion and memorizing biblical passages are cultural competencies that are learned through the participants' evangelical social formations. Studying and meditating on the Bible as a daily practice and hearing sermons where the narrative code of conversion is explained each week are activities that prepare the participants to bring these practices to bear---on their own terms---within the realm of reading and reacting to popular culture. |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 368 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87568 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9944983 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-28 |
Date Deposited: | 1999 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois