This thesis explores Roman Catholic and secular responses to sexual imagery in popular culture. The Catholic and socio-philosophical responses may be subdivided according to specific ideal types to elucidate the major ideological and ethical movements operative within these two hermeneutical traditions. I use the media luminary Madonna as a case study to illustrate the inadequacy of much that Catholic and secular cultural critics have written about religiously ambiguous and sexually provocative popular culture phenomena. Typically, secular critics neglect the religious implications of such phenomena, while Catholic critics overlook their ideological implications. I shall demonstrate both that hermeneutical exclusivity weakens the two major approaches and that only methodologies which take seriously both Catholic and secular insights are appropriate for analyzing this aspect of popular culture.

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Contributors to children's ministry produce many resources that are consumed by local congregations, determining the direction of their evangelism and discipleship with children. Chapter 1 describes the purpose of this research which was to investigate the attitudes and assumptions of significant contributors to children's ministry towards cultural relevancy as a determining factor for ministry development. Chapter 2 addresses the theological, historical, and educational bases for children's ministry. This chapter also gives attention to the current trends in children's ministry philosophy and methodology. Chapter 3 provides a description of the research design and experience. The qualitative process is described as well as the data collection and analysis of the interview process. Chapter 4 describes the findings from the data collection. Specific attention is given to the categories discovered while utilizing elements of the grounded theory approach to research. Chapter 5 provides a summary of the conclusions drawn from the findings in response to the research questions. General findings included a strong theological foundation and a passionate desire to be culturally relevant as motivators for the work of the recognized contributors to children's ministry. ministry KEY WORDS: Children's ministry, Theology of children, Developmentalism, Culture, Postmodernism, Church and Children / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

This thesis examines the role of Christianity in contemporary American culture using 1990s popular media as cultural artifacts. Building on theories of ideological analysis and hegemony, this project uncovers a balance between progressive and traditionalist ideologies in American culture with progressive ideologies most often superficially acknowledged and incorporated into dominant traditionalist Christian ideologies through hegemonic negotiation. An analysis of the popular Hollywood films The Last Temptation of Christ, Leap of Faith, Michael, City of Angels, Dogma and Keeping the Faith, illustrates this process by addressing Christian dominance in multicultural America, a backlash against feminism constructed through patriarchal and “family values” ideologies, and an integration of popular culture and traditionalist Christianity.

Depois de anos participando e observando a chamada Romaria de frei Damião, em São Joaquim do Monte, Pernambuco, sentindo e analisando as manifestações de fé vividas pelos romeiros, nosso interesse epistemológico voltou-se para a cultura da peregrinação e sua teia de significados, tentando aprender o que a experiência da peregrinação significa para a comunidade local e para os romeiros. Buscamos fundamentar nossa pesquisa nas contribuições de Geertz e García Cancline, por concordarmos tanto com a idéia de que a cultura, em nosso caso aquela popular, é um contexto, dentro do qual as formas de religiosidade podem ser descrit[a]s de forma intelegível isto é, descrit[a] com densidade, quanto com a ideia de que a cultura popular é uma cultura híbrida e, como tal, deve ser analisada. Ao longo de nossa pesquisa constatamos que os fenômenos das peregrinações não é uma realidade única e exclusiva do cristianismo. É, provavelmente, o primeiro fenômeno de massa da história e continua presente em outras experiências religiosas, de maneira forte e marcante, como é o caso do islamismo e do hinduísmo. Em todos os casos, pode-se afirmar que ela é buscada por ser fonte de reconciliação. Em conclusão, concordamos com Terrin, de que as duas dimensões a do verdadeiro e a do imaginário coexistem de maneira excepcional na romaria como talvez em nenhum outro fenômeno. / After years of participating in and observing the call frei Damião, Pilgrimage in São Joaquim do Monte, Pernambuco, feeling and analyzing the manifestations of faith lived by pilgrims, our epistemological interest turned to the culture of pilgrimage and its Web of meanings, trying to learn what the experience of pilgrimage means for the local community and to the pilgrims. We substantiate our research on the contributions of Geertz and García Cancline, by agree both with the idea that culture, in our case that is popular, "a context", within which the forms of religiosity "can be applet descript [a] s in an intelligible manner i.e. applet descript [a] with density", as with the idea that popular culture is a "hybrid" and cultureas such, should be analysed. Throughout our research we found that the phenomena of pilgrimages is not an exclusive and unique reality of Christianity. Is probably the first mass phenomenon of history and still present in other religious experiences, so strong and striking, as is the case of Islam and Hinduism. In all cases, we can say that it is fetched by be source of reconciliation. In conclusion, we agree with Terrin, that "the two dimensions the real and the imaginary coexist so exceptional in pilgrimage as perhaps no other phenomenon".

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