Restless: Popular Music, the Christian Story, and the Quest for Ontological Security - Hardcover

Gillard, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 166671190X ISBN 13: 9781666711905

Verlag: Pickwick Publications, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Why do many popular songs positively reference God if our culture is widely viewed as secular? Why is it a challenge to tell the Christian story when many say they are spiritual and believe in God? Why do we draw so much meaning from the popular songs we listen to? And might a deeper understanding of popular-music culture help us to explore the bigger stories we listen to throughout our lives, such as the Christian story? Primarily using Zygmunt Bauman's understanding of "liquid modernity" we look at the social forces that shape Western society and consider why, while many are looking for "authentic," ontologically based stories to understand their life experiences, historic providers of the big stories that shape our lives, such as the church, favor a different, epistemological way of telling them. How do these different approaches to storytelling affect their reception and what insight might we draw from that? Whilst this book is written primarily with those in Christian ministry in mind, it will be of interest, too, to those who use music to explore life experiences through their work, who are interested in the social forces that shape society, or who simply enjoy listening to popular music.

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David Gillard has been a vicar in the Church of England for over twenty years, is involved in theological education, and has a strong interest in both the missiology of the church and the importance of valuing our popular cultures.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 166671190X
• ISBN 13: 9781666711905
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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