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{"title":"Hollywood’s Bad Muslims: Misrepresentations and the Channeling of Racial Violence","authors":"I. Labidi","doi":"10.3138/jrpc.2020-0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.2020-0068","url":null,"abstract":"The cinemas of Arab and Muslim societies encompass a substantial number of film genres produced locally or in the diaspora. Arab and Muslim filmmakers experiment with different cinematic narratives, styles, and hybrid forms: auteur, documentary, diasporic, migrant, Third Cinema, and transnational productions. Their richness, diverse thematic foci, creative stylistic characteristics, and ability to reach global audiences recently motivated film scholars and other academics in Europe and the United States to consider designating a category called “Muslim Cinema” and defining its contours. The influence of these rich cinemas in contesting Hollywood’s demonization of Muslims, the conflation of Arabs, Muslims, and Islam, and the proliferation of anti-Muslim racism in Western discourse, however, remains very limited. Therefore, this article argues that the idea of such a category, if one were to be created, should explore venues to address Hollywood’s evolving forms of racializing Muslims and their relationship with the current institutionalization of anti-Muslim racism in the United States. Through a brief survey of Hollywood’s contemporary productions about Muslims, this article analyzes the impact of moving images on representation, particularly the fossilized characterization of Muslims as evil, and identifies three areas in American cinema and political discourse that could belong to this category: the first is Hollywood’s uninterrupted flow of making essentializing and essentialized narratives that conflate Arabs, Muslims, and Islam, and normalizes violence against them; the second deals with the transition from Islamophobia to anti-Muslim racism and explains its sanctioning by the US government; the third addresses the morphing of Islam into a race.","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124395703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Muslims and the Making of America","authors":"Diana Gómez López","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.2020-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.2020-0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124900237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Envy: Exposing a Secret Sin","authors":"Kennon Rice","doi":"10.3138/jrpc.2019-0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.2019-0048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116448577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blur: A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth Culture by Jeff Keuss (review)","authors":"Ron Belsterling","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.27.2.BR1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.27.2.BR1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122020576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality","authors":"GrazianoMichael","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.26.2.267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.26.2.267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129986245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith","authors":"McCraryCharles","doi":"10.3138/jrpc.26.2.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.26.2.259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115702919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism","authors":"Timothy K. Snyder","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.26.2.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.26.2.265","url":null,"abstract":"Stowe, David W. No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Hardback, 2011. 291 pp. $37.50 ISBN: 978-0-807-83458-9. Paperback: 2013. 304 pp. $27.95 ISBN: 978-1469606873 Scholars of American religion have long been interested in how evangelicals have engaged in practices and strategies of cultural engagement. Frequent are their attempts to trace such cultural engagement through politics, media, and education. Far less frequent are examples of scholars considering the relationship between American evangelicals and popular culture, much less going so far as to assert that the popular music of Christianity during a given era (in this case the 1960s and 1970s) had a causal force in the transformation of the evangelical movement. This is the task that David W. Stowe sets out to accomplish in No Sympathy for the Devil. Stowe begins his study heavily indebted to the analytical frame of \"cultural front\" as developed by Yale cultural historian Michael Denning. In this way, Stowe frames the convergence between the Jesus movement and its music, known as contemporary Christian music, as \"a peculiar new cultural formation with unexpected consequences for the religious and political affiliations of large numbers of Americans\" (5). The conceptual linchpin by which Stowe understands the causal relationship between Christian pop music and the transformation of evangelicalism can be found in his argument that music is not merely a cultural artifact but a social practice. In other words, music is not just a byproduct of culture but actually shapes culture (and subcultures) itself. Throughout the first half of the book, Stowe explores the relationships between contemporary Christian musicians (such as Lonnie Frisbee, David Berg, and Chuck Girard), folk musicians (such as Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash), black gospel singers (such as Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye), and musicals ranging from Jesus Christ, Superstar to Godspell to Gospel Road. Stowe tells interesting, vivid historical accounts, drawing on interviews, newspaper articles, music liner notes, and concert programs as well as authorized biographies. These thick accounts offer the reader extraordinary insights into the cultural production of contemporary Christian music in its early, formative years. In the second part of the book, the discussion shifts as Stowe shows how the countercultural movement of the 1960s and 1970s grew in its influences and soon became inseparable from the social movement that mobilized a generation of evangelicals into American electoral politics beginning with Jimmy Carter and culminating with the rise of the religious right and the Reagan Revolution. Throughout this historical shift into politics, the Jesus movement and its synergistic companions are never far from the discussion. …","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133491021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Secularization and Its Discontents","authors":"O. BakerJoseph","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.25.2.REV004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.25.2.REV004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130764091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred","authors":"E. AugerEmily","doi":"10.3138/jrpc.25.3.rev004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.25.3.rev004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126285688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality","authors":"S. Okey","doi":"10.3138/JRPC.25.1.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JRPC.25.1.167","url":null,"abstract":"Wagner, Rachel. Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality. New York: Routledge, 2012. 266 pp. $39.95 (US). ISBN: 978-0-415-78145-9 The rapid development of media and digital technology in the last few decades has inspired a great deal of research into the intersections among religion, media, and culture. In Godwired: Religion, Ritual, and Virtual Reality, Rachel Wagner offers a creative and insightful text focusing on the interactions and parallels between virtual reality and religion. Wagner defines virtual reality as \"any form of digital technology that involves user engagement with software via a screen interface\" (1). The definition is understandably (if perhaps overly) broad, as her range of examples stretches from online worlds (Second Life) and transmedia franchises (Avatar, Star Wars)to flash mobs and digital prayer walls. Wagner argues that our engagements with virtual reality and religion are analogous, with both presenting many of the same possibilities and challenges. She describes religion in terms of both bricolage and family resemblance: religion rolls together rituals, myths, texts, morals, and communal boundaries, resulting in a recognizable combination. The theoretical groundwork for tying virtual reality and religion together is laid in the third chapter's analysis of the relationships among rituals, games, and stories. Wagner describes the \"ritual-game-story thing\" (54) as a complex hybrid, with each phenomenon displaying various degrees of interactivity, play, rules, narrative, and conflict. The differences among these three, especially between ritual and game, may be difficult to clearly demarcate, but Wagner argues that it primarily rests in the participants' attitudes: rituals make ultimate claims while games make limited ones. The remainder of the book is a collection of topics that build on this theoretical framework. Wagner explores the possibility of the \"virtual sacred\" in light of Mircea Eliade's sacred/profane distinction (chapter four), the construction of identity (chapter five) and community (chapter 6) in light of virtual reality, and the potential for evil (chapter seven) and revelation (chapter eight) in video games. In the final chapters, she attempts to synthesize the key insights of these earlier chapters, arguing that both religion and virtual reality engage in worldbuilding as a way of imagining sacred and virtual space. The synthesis rests on applying the concept of transmedia, in which an overarching narrative or world is developed across multiple forms of media, to religious traditions. Wagner is particularly effective at problematizing the sometimes rigid distinctions between virtual and other spaces. …","PeriodicalId":219603,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132323494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}