Sporting Heroic Bodies In a Christian Nation-at-War
Studying how popular iconography intersects with discourses of sexuality, I describe contemporary cultural icons of heroic bodies with regard to their significance for religious and national ideology. In this paper I investigate multiple layers of complexity in the representation, practices, and dis...
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| 语言: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2003]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2003, 卷: 5, 发布: 1 |
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| 总结: | Studying how popular iconography intersects with discourses of sexuality, I describe contemporary cultural icons of heroic bodies with regard to their significance for religious and national ideology. In this paper I investigate multiple layers of complexity in the representation, practices, and discursive implication of a Christian exercise chain, the "Lord's Gym," and the particular bodies targeted and produced there. Indicating implications, I suggest that studying contemporary representations of heroic bodies, placed within the reemergence of historical movements of "muscular Christianity" and vis-à-vis critical discourse about masculinity and nationalism, contributes to understanding religion in post 9/11-American culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.5.1.001 |