The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities

ISBN-13: 9781602582538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 285 str.

Kristy Maddux

Opis

For decades, American popular media have instructed audiences about their roles and significance in the public sphere. In "The Faithful Citizen," rhetorical critic Kristy Maddux argues that popular Christian media not only communicate avenues for civic engagement but do so in profoundly gendered terms. Her detailed interrogation of popular Christian movies, books, and television shows the "Left Behind" series, Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ, " "Amazing Grace, 7th Heaven, and the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code exposes five competing models of how Christians should behave in the civic sphere as their gendered selves. What emerges is a typology that insightfully reveals how these varying faith-based models of engagement uniquely shape public discourse and influence the larger picture of contemporary politics.""

Spis treści

• Preface
• 1. Christian Media, Gender, and Civic Participation
• 2. Genteel Masculinity, the Prophetic Posture, and Legislative Politics
• Amazing Grace
• 3. Violence, Divine Sanction, and Submissive Femininity
• The Passion of the Christ
• 4. Brutish Masculinity and the War against Evil
• Left Behind
• 5. Femininity and Secular Salvation in Social Welfare
• 7th Heaven
• 6. Biology, Heterosexuality, and the Privatization of Faithfulness
• The Da Vinci Code
• 7. The Limits and Possibilities of Faith-Based Civic Participation
• References
• Notes
• Index