RELS 3500: Religion and Popular Culture

3 Credit Hours

This course is an interdisciplinary course that examines the ways that religious themes, symbols, icons, artifacts and language are used in expressions of popular culture(s) and also how religion is itself influenced by popular culture(s). The interaction between religion and pop culture(s) is studied from a critical perspective with a range of diverse cultural and religious examples across both media platforms and forms of pop culture(s).