Cosplay in the pulpit and ponies at prayer: Christian faith and lived religion in wider fan culture

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION
Andrew Crome
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ABSTRACT This article examines the way in which Christian fans of popular media franchises have incorporated their fan identity into a lived religious experience, producing religious fan works such as fan fiction, art, and fan-themed church services. Based around a series of interviews with fans in the United States and the UK, both lay and clergy, it suggests the powerful affective connections forged through fandom, and examines the way in which fandom operates as a shared language to engage the wider fan community with theological ideas. Fans viewed their fandom as an arena through which God communicated and developed personal faith, working through fan texts and fan works to encourage and develop their connection to the divine. This article, therefore, challenges academic positions that see fandom as a secular replacement for religion, or as a form of blasphemous excess.
在讲坛上的角色扮演和祈祷中的小马:基督教信仰和更广泛的粉丝文化中的生活宗教
摘要本文探讨了流行媒体的基督教粉丝如何将他们的粉丝身份融入到真实的宗教体验中,创作出宗教粉丝作品,如粉丝小说、艺术和以粉丝为主题的教堂服务。基于对美国和英国非神职人员和神职人员粉丝的一系列采访,它表明了通过粉丝圈建立的强大情感联系,并考察了粉丝圈作为一种共享语言的运作方式,以使更广泛的粉丝群体参与神学思想。粉丝们将他们的粉丝圈视为上帝交流和发展个人信仰的舞台,通过粉丝文本和粉丝作品来鼓励和发展他们与上帝的联系。因此,这篇文章挑战了将粉丝视为宗教的世俗替代品或亵渎过度的一种形式的学术立场。
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