TTEAKH049U Christianity and pop culture
10th June Day 1 |
9.00-12.00: Introduction to the course, theory and methods, Emil Saggau & Ryszard Brobowich
Intro to the field: curriculum,
course-material, examination and topics
Intro to the field II: methods and theories
Reading (recommended, but it is for the entire course)
- Hjarvard, Stig & M Lövheim (eds), Mediatization and Religion: Nordic Perspectives. Nordicom, Göteborg
- Hjarvard, S 2012, “Three Forms of Mediatized Religion: Changing the Public Face of Religion”. in, pp. 21-44 (22 pages)
- Hjarvard, Stig & M Lövheim. "The Mediatized Conditions of Contemporary Religion: Critical Status and Future Directions". Journal of religion, media and digital culture 8 (2019) 206-225 (19 pages)
- Hjarvard, Stig. ”The mediatisation of religion: Theorising religion, media
- and social change”, Culture and Religion,2011.p. 119-135 (14 pages)
- Lynch, Gordon. Understanding theology and popular
culture. London Blackwell publishing, 2010, ISBN:
978-1-405-11747-0.
p. 1-194 (193 pages) - Brobowich, Ryszard and Emil Saggau . The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology, 2023 (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
12-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.00: how to write a paper on this topic
14-16.00: Ryszard Brobowich. Popculture in streaming shows
Reading
- Cressler, Matthew J.. ”The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable”. The Atlantic, 2021 (5 pages)
- Bobrowicz, Ryszard and Emil Hilton Saggau ”Chapter 6: The figure of Christ in South Park and Family Guy as an embodiment of American religiosity” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Watching
Un-Orthodox (Netflix)
"Part 1" (episode 1, 2020)
Midnight Mass (Netflix)
"Book I: Genesis" (episode 1: 2021)
16.00-17.00: Group work
19.00: Dinner
20.00: Movie – South Park
22the June, day 2 |
10-12.00: Aron Engberg. Evangelical Christianity
and Popular Apocalypticism
Reading
Frykholm, Amy Johnson and Amy Johnson Frykholm. Rapture Culture : Left Behind in Evangelical America. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. 2003, p. 3-88; 105-130 (100 pages)
12-13.00: Lunch break
13.00-15.00: Jesus and friends. Emil Saggau
Reading
- Reinhartz, Adele. Jesus of Hollywood. 2007 ISBN: 9780195146967 Oxford Scholarship p. 3-63; 98-122 (84 pages)
- DeVille, Chris. "Christian America’s Must-See TV Show" The Atlantic, 2021 (5 pages)
Watching
The Chosen (2017-, Angel Studios)
Episode 1 “I Have Called You By Name”
15-15.30: Break
15.30-18.30: The devil in the detail – examine the role of Satan in pop culture. Emil Saggau
Reading
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew and Hansen, Regina M.. Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2021 ISBN: 9780823297924 (p. 1-14; 42-58; 58-70 – 42 pages)
1) Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. "Introduction: Giving the Devil His Due" (p. 1-14)
2) J. P. Telotte. "Disney’s Devils" (p. 42-58)
3) Katherine A. Fowkes. "What’s the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films" (p. 58-70)
Watching
Lucifer (Fox-Netflix)
"A Priest Walks into a Bar" Season 1 episode 9 (2016)
"O, Ye of Little Faith, Father" Season 4 episode 3 (2019)
19: Dinner
20.00: Movie 2: Moonraker – James Bond
23th June, Day 3 |
9.00- 12.00: James bond and Christianity Emil
Saggau
Reading
Teemu Taira. “Reading Bond Films through the Lens of “Religion” - Discourse of “the West and the Rest”. JFRM, 2019, (21 pages)
Sieberhagen, Thomas ”Chapter 7: Hypocrites and Holy Fools: Christian Characters in American Films and Television” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Taira,Teemu. ”Chapter 5: Representing Atheism in Film” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
12-13.00: Lunch break
13.00-16.00: Black Christianity in movies and music. Emil Saggau
Listening, reading and watching (music videos)
Lemonade (Beyoncé album, 2016) – Music videos (Youtube), text and music
Lil Nas X - "Montero (Call Me by Your Name) – 2021, Music videos (Youtube), text and music (8 pages)
30th June, Day 4 |
9.00-10.00: theory of music and religion, Emil
Saggau
Reading
- Otterbeck, Jonas ”Chapter 10: An Islamic Ethical Masculinity: The case of Islamic popstars” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
- Otterbeck, Jonas. The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, p. 1-22 (21 pages)
Watching/listening
Raef, "The Muslim Christmas Song" (2017)
10.00-12.00 Music and Christianity I – Balkan.Emil Saggau
Reading
Čvoro, Uroš. Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia. Routledge, p. 1-129 (128 pages)
Watching/listening/reading
- Beogradski Sindikat. “Welcome to Serbia” (2010)
- Beogradski Sindikat. “Sviće zora (The Dawn is rising)” (2020)
- Beogradski Sindikat .”Dogodine u Prizrenu (Next Year in Prizren)” (2019)
- “Oi Kosovo, Kosovo”
- “Himna Za Život Srbije (Hymn for the Life of Serbia)”
See https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt9UrrTAqfDJfGSsOe8Jk2SeY7cVbk14S
12-14.00: Lunch break and group assignments.
14.00-15.00: Music and Christianity II- Denmark. Emil Saggau
Will be updated with a youtube link to a playlist
15.00-16.00: Music and Christianity III – Sweden. Emil
Saggau
Will be updated with a youtube link to a playlist
17: Drinks and dinner
20.00: Cultural event
1th July, day 5 |
10-11: How to write a paper II
11-12: Presentation of student analysis, papers topics and
analysis
12-13: Break
13.00-15.30: Presentation of student analysis, papers topics and analysis
15.30-16.00: concluding remarks, exams and deadlines
Kurset er støttet af en række fonde, hvorfor vi tilbyder muligheder for overnatning i Lund for danske studerende stiller fra den 10-11 juni og den 22-23, samt 30 juli og 1 juni – samt middage alle dage.
Secondary literature: 836
Other sources: 500 pages
Music texts: 48 pages of music – aprox. 100 pages
Movies: 2 movies = 200 pages
Tv-series: 5 episodes = 200 pages
Reading
Cressler, Matthew J.. ”The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable”. The Atlantic, 2021 (5 pages)
Frykholm, Amy Johnson and Amy Johnson Frykholm. Rapture Culture : Left Behind in Evangelical America. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. 2003, p. 3-88; 105-130 (100 pages)
Čvoro, Uroš. Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia. Routledge, p. 1-129 (128 pages)
DeVille, Chris. "Christian America’s Must-See TV Show" The Atlantic, 2021 (5 pages)
Hjarvard, Stig & M Lövheim (eds), Mediatization and Religion: Nordic Perspectives. Nordicom, Göteborg
- Hjarvard, S 2012, “Three Forms of Mediatized Religion: Changing the Public Face of Religion”. in, pp. 21-44 (22 pages)
- Line Nybroe Petersen. ”Danish Twilight fandom. Transformative Processes of religion” p. 163-183 (20 pages)
- Liv Ingeborg Lied. ”Religious Change and Popular Culture – with a Nod to the Mediatization of Religion Debate”, p. 183-202 (20 pages)
Hjarvard, Stig & M Lövheim. "The Mediatized Conditions of Contemporary Religion: Critical Status and Future Directions". Journal of religion, media and digital culture 8 (2019) 206-225 (19 pages)
Hjarvard, Stig. ”The mediatisation of religion: Theorising religion, media and social change”, Culture and Religion,2011.p. 119-135 (14 pages)
Lynch, Gordon. Understanding theology and popular
culture. London Blackwell publishing, 2010, ISBN:
978-1-405-11747-0.
p. 1-194 (193 pages)
Otterbeck, Jonas. The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, p. 1-22 (21 pages)
Reinhartz, Adele. Jesus of Hollywood. 2007 ISBN: 9780195146967
Oxford Scholarship p. 3-63; 98-122 (84 pages)
Teemu Taira. “Reading Bond Films through the Lens of “Religion” - Discourse of “the West and the Rest”. JFRM, 2019, (21 pages)
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew and Hansen, Regina M.. Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2021 ISBN: 9780823297924 (p. 1-14; 42-58; 58-70 – 42 pages)
1) Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. "Introduction: Giving the Devil His Due" (p. 1-14)
2) J. P. Telotte. "Disney’s Devils" (p. 42-58)
3) Katherine A. Fowkes. "What’s the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films" (p. 58-70)
The following draft papers will be distributed as pdf-files to participants (120 pages) – they are all drafts and please keep them inside this forum
Brobowich, Ryszard and Emil Saggau . The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology, 2023 (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Bobrowicz, Ryszard and Emil Hilton Saggau ”Chapter 6: The figure of Christ in South Park and Family Guy as an embodiment of American religiosity” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Otterbeck, Jonas ”Chapter 10: An Islamic Ethical Masculinity: The case of Islamic popstars” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Saggau, Emil. “The emergence of the American devil – Lucifer - on screen today - reassessing the devil figure in American streaming series and cartoons” (draft, 20 pages)
Sieberhagen, Thomas ”Chapter 7: Hypocrites and Holy Fools: Christian Characters in American Films and Television” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Taira,Teemu. ”Chapter 5: Representing Atheism in Film” 2023, (draft, 20 pages) from Emil Saggau and Ryszard Brobowich. The signs of time - Popular culture and Political theology
Sources /movies /music
Movies
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
James Bond /”Moonraker” (Lewis Gilbert, GB/FR/US 1979)
TV-series
Lucifer (Fox-Netflix)
"A Priest Walks into a Bar" Season 1 episode 9 (2016)
"O, Ye of Little Faith, Father" Season 4 episode 3 (2019)
Un-Orthodox
"Part 1" (episode 1, 2020)
Midnight Mass (Netflix)
"Book I: Genesis" (episode 1: 2021)
The Chosen (2017-, Angel Studios)
Episode 1 “I Have Called You By Name”
Music
See Music sources catalogue
Lemonade (Beyoncé album, 2016) – Music videos (Youtube), text and music
Raef, "The Muslim Christmas Song" (2017)
Lil Nas X - "Montero (Call Me by Your Name) – 2021 (8 pages)
Beogradski Sindikat. “Welcome to Serbia” (2010)
Beogradski Sindikat. “Sviće zora (The Dawn is rising)” (2020)
Beogradski Sindikat .”Dogodine u Prizrenu (Next Year in Prizren)” (2019)
“Oi Kosovo, Kosovo”
“Himna Za Život Srbije (Hymn for the Life of Serbia)”
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 122
- Exam Preparation
- 150
- Exam
- 120
- Total
- 420
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- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
- Type of assessment details
- BA-studerende:
a) Pensum i et omfang af 1.200-1.500 sider. Tekstsider på græsk, hebraisk, latin eller lignende tæller
dobbelt, medmindre de ledsages af en oversættelse. Pensum omfatter både den kursuslitteratur, som
gennemgås i forbindelse med undervisningen, og den opgavelitteratur, som den skriftlige
hjemmeopgave baserer sig på, og som den studerende selv finder og får godkendt af underviser.
Pensum (kursus- og opgavelitteraturen tilsammen) må ikke overstige 1.500 sider.
b) Aktiv deltagelse (mindst 75 % af afholdte timer dokumenteret ved protokol) samt udarbejdelse af
en skriftlig hjemmeopgave, der har et omfang af 24.000-28.800 tegn, dvs. 10-12 sider, baseret på
600-800 sider litteratur efter aftale med faglæreren. Tekstsider på græsk, hebraisk, latin eller lignende
tæller dobbelt, medmindre de ledsages af en oversættelse.
KA-studerende:
a) Pensum i et omfang af 1.200-1.500 sider. Tekstsider på græsk, hebraisk, latin eller lignende tæller dobbelt, medmindre de ledsages af en oversættelse. Pensum omfatter både den kursuslitteratur, som gennemgås i forbindelse med undervisningen, og den opgavelitteratur, som den skriftlige hjemmeopgave baserer sig på, og som den studerende selv finder og får godkendt af underviser.
Pensum (kursus- og opgavelitteraturen tilsammen) må ikke overstige 1.500 sider.
b) Aktiv deltagelse (mindst 75 % af afholdte timer dokumenteret ved protokol) samt udarbejdelse af en skriftlig hjemmeopgave, der har et omfang af 36.000-48-000 tegn, dvs. 15-20 sider, baseret på 800-1.000 sider litteratur efter aftale med faglæreren. Tekstsider på græsk, hebraisk eller latin tæller dobbelt, medmindre de ledsages af en oversættelse. Pensum (kursus- og opgavelitteraturen tilsammen) må ikke overstige 1.500 sider. - Marking scale
- passed/not passed
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Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- TTEAKH049U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- BachelorBachelor choice,Full Degree Master,Full Degree Master choice,Part Time Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Summer And Autumn
- Schedule
- Se kursusbeskrivelse
Study board
- Study board of Theology
Contracting department
- Theology
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Theology
Course Coordinators
- Carsten Selch Jensen (3-67776e4478697370326f7932686f)
Lecturers
Emil Saggau