POPULAR cultureRITES & ceremoniesRITUALPIETYThis essay analyzes the form of Hillsong Los Angeles's live Sunday services and Hillsong California's digital services using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic analysis. Specifically, it extends Burke's concept of the "representative anecdote" to acco...
While it is appropriate to remember that clerical and monastic elites form part of the whole which practices popular religion, it is clear that their spiritual habits were different from the rest of society. If ordinary Christians' piety was less intense, less educated, and less documented than ...
From the middle of the 20th century, the rise of anthropocentric beliefs partly inherited from the Abrahamic religions led to a change in mentality about ecosystems. The measurable signs of environmental exploitation and destruction and their consequences for human health, the shift to post-materialist...
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