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God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music by Andrew Mall (review) 《上帝摇滚公司:小众音乐的商业》作者:安德鲁·梅尔(书评)
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2022-01-06 DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2021-0050
Paul A. Anthony
In the summer of 1983, the rock band Petra was riding high, selling out larger venues than ever on the concert tour supporting their blockbuster LP, More Power to Ya. With its catchy guitar licks, soaring vocals, and slick concert performances, Petra—the Greek word for “rock”—fit comfortably within the musical milieu pioneered by such contemporary giants as Kansas and Foreigner. However, unlike those better-known bands, that summer Petra also released the first issue of a newsletter with the headline, “Arming Ourselves for Spiritual Battle,” printed below an illustration of a teen boy in a futuristic space suit, holding a sword and shield as he blocked a laser blast. As the masthead proclaimed, the publisher was Petra Ministries. The very phrase “Petra Ministries” reads like a non sequitur outside the world of Christian Contemporary Music (CCM), but within it, the marriage of music and ministry is assumed, even if the appropriate balance between the two is contested. Although most rock bands will never publish a Bible study on spiritual warfare, musicologist Andrew Mall argues in God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music that the underlying tension between subcultural ethics and musical aesthetics among CCM artists can serve as a useful case study for niche markets generally. Markets, according to Mall, are those “spaces in which the interactions of musicians, listeners, and cultural intermediaries . . . are grounded in the production and consumption of music” (3). While scholars in religious studies, cultural studies, and music history increasingly have found CCM a worthy area of research, none thus far has focused so strongly on the market itself and its influence on the artists who seek to conquer or transcend it. God Rock, Inc. pursues this argument in two main parts: The first four chapters focus on the CCM industry and its history, and the final three chapters analyze the tension between ministry and industry. The book also includes illustrations and four appendices that provide crucial contextual detail, as well as—in a fun twist—Spotify playlists of the songs and albums Mall discusses. God Rock, Inc. begins its story with the 1960s Jesus People movement that eventually birthed CCM. As Mall shows, artists almost immediately struggled to balance sacrificial ministry with seeking the profits that would allow their ministry’s expansion, sometimes adjusting lyrical content to reach audiences outside of the Christian market, adjusting musical styles to enhance radio airplay opportunities, or both. This “double marginalization,” in Mall’s words— too Christian for the mainstream, too mainstream for the Christians (16)—was unique to the formative decades of CCM. A prime example of attempting to overcome this dynamic, which Mall analyzes in Chapter 4, “Find a Way,” is Amy Grant’s infamous crossover into the general pop market from 1985–91. Grant, who for a decade had been touted as the Christian alternative to mainstream pop artists such as Madon
1983年夏天,摇滚乐队佩特拉(Petra)在巡回演唱会上大放异彩,演唱会场地比以往任何时候都大,为他们的大片LP《More Power to Ya》提供支持。Petra——希腊语中“摇滚”的意思——凭借其朗朗上口的吉他声、高亢的人声和流畅的音乐会表演,非常适合堪萨斯州和外国人等当代巨头开创的音乐环境。然而,与那些更知名的乐队不同的是,那年夏天,佩特拉还发布了第一期时事通讯,标题是“为精神之战武装我们自己”,下面印着一幅插图,画的是一个穿着未来主义太空服的十几岁男孩,手里拿着剑和盾牌,挡住了激光爆炸。正如刊头宣称的那样,出版商是佩特拉部委。在基督教当代音乐(CCM)之外,“Petra Ministrys”这个短语读起来就像是一个不合逻辑的推论,但在它内部,音乐和牧师的结合是假定的,即使两者之间的适当平衡存在争议。尽管大多数摇滚乐队永远不会发表关于精神战的圣经研究,但音乐学家Andrew Mall在《上帝摇滚,股份有限公司:利基音乐的商业》一书中认为,CCM艺术家中亚文化伦理和音乐美学之间的潜在紧张关系可以作为利基市场的有用案例研究。根据Mall的说法,市场是指“音乐家、听众和文化中介的互动……以音乐的生产和消费为基础的空间”(3)。尽管宗教研究、文化研究和音乐史的学者越来越多地发现CCM是一个值得研究的领域,但迄今为止,没有人如此强烈地关注市场本身及其对寻求征服或超越市场的艺术家的影响。God Rock,股份有限公司将这一论点分为两个主要部分:前四章关注CCM行业及其历史,最后三章分析了工信部之间的紧张关系。这本书还包括插图和四个附录,提供了关键的上下文细节,以及Spotify播放列表中Mall讨论的歌曲和专辑。God Rock,股份有限公司的故事始于20世纪60年代的耶稣运动,该运动最终诞生了CCM。正如Mall所展示的那样,艺术家们几乎立刻就在努力平衡牺牲牧师与寻求利润之间的关系,这将使他们的牧师得以扩张,有时会调整抒情内容以接触基督教市场以外的观众,调整音乐风格以增加广播播放机会,或者两者兼而有之。用Mall的话来说,这种“双重边缘化”——对主流来说太基督教了,对基督徒来说太主流了(16)——是CCM形成的几十年所独有的。Mall在第4章“找到一条路”中分析了试图克服这种动态的一个典型例子,那就是Amy Grant在1985-91年间臭名昭著的跨界进入普通流行市场。十年来,格兰特一直被吹捧为麦当娜等主流流行艺术家的基督教替代者,1991年的《心在动》让CCM行业感到惊讶,这张流行专辑更多地关注爱情和生活的一般情感,而不是对耶稣的明确提及;这本书卖出了500多万册,尽管她的许多老粉丝指责她为了追求利润而出卖了自己的牧师。“利基市场边界”购物中心
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Watching Movies in Jonestown: A Cultural Interlocutor Approach to Visual Media and New Religions 在琼斯镇看电影:视觉媒体和新宗教的文化对话者方法
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2020-0027
Kristian Klippenstein
Abstract:This article argues that new religious movements (NRMs) develop as cultural interlocutors. As emergent social bodies that respond to extant norms, structures, and values, NRMs can deploy cultural products as a shared vocabulary and grammar in their response to surrounding society. To demonstrate this approach's ability to parse NRMs' relations to popular culture while highlighting organizationally distinctive dimensions of such interactions, this article examines Jim Jones's references to visual media shown in Jonestown in 1978. Jones critiqued movies and television as tools of social control, repurposed documentaries and films as evidence to support his proffered doctrine, and creatively presented movies as analogues of the commune's perceived challenges. This threefold hermeneutic shaped the Peoples Temple's beliefs and behavior, as well as its own media productions.
摘要:本文认为,新宗教运动是作为文化对话者而发展起来的。作为对现存规范、结构和价值观做出回应的新兴社会机构,NRM可以将文化产品作为一种共享的词汇和语法来应对周围的社会。为了证明这种方法能够解析NRM与流行文化的关系,同时强调这种互动在组织上的独特维度,本文考察了吉姆·琼斯1978年在琼斯镇展示的对视觉媒体的引用。琼斯批评电影和电视是社会控制的工具,重新调整纪录片和电影的用途,将其作为支持他所提出的学说的证据,并创造性地将电影视为社区所面临挑战的类似物。这三重解释学塑造了人民圣殿的信仰和行为,以及它自己的媒体作品。
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Prayers for Ancestors, Spirits, and Gods: Focusing on the ritual combination of divine beings 对祖先、神灵和神的祈祷:专注于神的仪式组合
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.46263/rc.41.4.
I. Sim
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A Study on Korean Divinatory Prose-poetry: Transition and Development from Ch?ng’s Predictions to Divinatory Prose-poetry 朝鲜族占卜散文诗研究:从秦朝到秦朝的过渡与发展吴氏《预言散文诗》
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.46263/rc.41.1.
Byoung Hoon Park
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The Religions of the Other Represented in the Novels of Annie L. A. Baird 安妮·l·a·贝尔德小说中所表现的他者的宗教
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.46263/rc.41.3.
Won-il Bhang
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A Study on the Theory of the Ascension to the Throne of Cha Kyung-seok in the 1920s 20世纪20年代车敬锡继位论研究
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.46263/rc.41.2.
Ingyu Park
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What can Orthodox Christianity Learn from Postmodernism?: Merold Westphal’s Hermeneutics of Finitude and His Own Appropriation of Postmodernism to Religion 正统基督教能从后现代主义中学到什么?梅洛德·威斯特法尔的有限性解释学及其对宗教的后现代主义挪用
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.46263/rc.41.6.
Dongkyu Kim
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Liberal Prepping as Apocalyptic Eco-Religion 作为启示录生态宗教的自由主义准备
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2020-0026
Juli L. Gittinger, William S. Chavez, Shyam K. Sriram, Ewan Bowlby, David Tuipulotu-Tuinukuafe, P. Anthony
Abstract:The term "prepper" or "survivalist" has long been associated with more conservative or politically right-leaning communities who have operated at the fringe of society for decades. Since the new millennium, this hobby of preparedness has increased and, most recently, shown a rise among liberal or left-leaning communities. This essay addresses the rise in liberal prepper culture not only as a political response to right-wing politics, but as a fear heightened by the realities of climate change and its impact on humanity, thus creating an eco-religion centred on ethical and moral responsibilities, with an overall apocalyptic hue.
摘要:“预科生”或“生存主义者”一词长期以来一直与更保守或政治右倾的社区联系在一起,这些社区几十年来一直处于社会边缘。自新千年以来,这种防备的爱好有所增加,最近在自由派或左倾社区中有所抬头。这篇文章阐述了自由预科生文化的兴起,这不仅是对右翼政治的政治回应,也是气候变化及其对人类影响的现实加剧的恐惧,从而创造了一种以伦理和道德责任为中心的生态宗教,具有整体的启示色彩。
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Religion and Media in America 美国的宗教与媒体
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2020-0053
Karlin Andersen
From the fight over the addition of God to the Pledge of Allegiance to religious satire on late night television, Anthony Hatcher argues in Religion and Media in America that American media, popular culture, and Christianity are inextricably linked by their history, development, and mutual impact on one another. While the book’s title and introduction promise a history and examination of the deep ties between American media and religion, the book discusses a range of cultural artifacts and focuses solely on Christianity.
从在《效忠誓言》中加入上帝的争论到深夜电视节目中的宗教讽刺,安东尼·哈彻在《美国的宗教与媒体》一书中指出,美国媒体、流行文化和基督教因其历史、发展和相互影响而密不可分。虽然这本书的标题和引言承诺对美国媒体与宗教之间的深刻联系进行历史和考察,但这本书讨论了一系列文化文物,并只关注基督教。
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Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions About Israel by Shalom Goldman (review) 《乐土追星:艺术如何塑造美国人对以色列的热情》作者:Shalom Goldman
0 RELIGION Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2021-0009
D. Levy
This excellent cultural history of the special evolving relationship between the arts in the US and Israel, including music, theatre, dance, film, literature, and television is a tour de force. It shows how the role of artists’ relationships to Israel has influenced how Americans often perceive Israel. These intertwined cultural histories of the US and Israel have shaped one another and destined Israel’s image. Books, films, TV, and music have played a significant role in forming American public views of Israel by depictions with subthemes of socialism, imperialism, racial justice, and Christian missionary efforts. A strength of the book is that Goldman, in the process of writing an outstanding cultural history, reveals much knowledge in areas of political science, historical background of the Middle East, foreign policy and diplomacy, Israeli public relations, Israel’s perceived international image, and world religious history. The book superbly shows how American cultural forces in the performing arts are part of the process of the American-Israeli story that is the most consequential international alliance. While much has been written about the diplomatic, military, and religious aspects of the relationship between the US and Israel, Goldman reveals that the mediating role of the power of the arts has shaped and destined the US-Israeli special relationship of the world stage. Goldman demonstrates how American artists who have journeyed to Israel to perform, lecture, and rivet fans have not only expressed but influenced the American special relationship with Israel. The wide scope, not only chronologically but for its far-ranging noetic ken, that incorporates a wide net to help understanding of the special relationship Israel has with the US, is refreshing to see in an age of narrow academic specialization. While containing many important details, it does not lose sight of the forest for the trees and traces broad general trends. A second strength is Goldman’s piercing analytic penetration that brings to light the leftright political divisions that form a subconscious background to historical unfoldings since the foundation of the United States. With this analytical penetration, Goldman is able to demonstrate that Christian support for Israel—primarily amongst Protestants, and to a lesser degree amongst Catholics—was and remains the central and determining part of Israel’s establishment, support, and growth, founded on the central place of reading the world’s destiny and fate into the Bible through Christian interpretation of Biblical prophecy. Recently this Christian Right has played a role in support of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, scrapping the Obama-era US-Iran Deal, and recognizing that Judea and Samaria are not illegal but the rightful borders of Israel as described in the reigns of King David and Solomon. Thirdly, Goldman is able to focus and identify clear turning points in US-Israeli relations through the political sea cha
这部关于美国和以色列艺术之间特殊发展关系的优秀文化史,包括音乐、戏剧、舞蹈、电影、文学和电视,是一部杰作。它展示了艺术家与以色列的关系如何影响了美国人对以色列的看法。这些交织在一起的美国和以色列的文化历史相互影响,并决定了以色列的形象。书籍、电影、电视和音乐通过描绘社会主义、帝国主义、种族正义和基督教传教士的努力等次要主题,在形成美国公众对以色列的看法方面发挥了重要作用。这本书的优势在于,在撰写一部杰出的文化史的过程中,戈德曼揭示了政治学、中东历史背景、外交政策和外交、以色列公共关系、以色列的国际形象和世界宗教史等领域的许多知识。这本书出色地展示了表演艺术中的美国文化力量如何成为美国-以色列故事过程的一部分,这是最重要的国际联盟。虽然关于美国和以色列关系的外交、军事和宗教方面的文章很多,但戈德曼揭示,艺术力量的中介作用塑造并注定了美国和以色列在世界舞台上的特殊关系。戈德曼展示了那些前往以色列演出、演讲和吸引粉丝的美国艺术家不仅表达了美国与以色列的特殊关系,而且影响了这种关系。在一个学术专门化狭窄的时代,这本书的范围之广,不仅体现在时间上,而且体现在其广泛的思想知识上,它整合了一个广泛的网络,以帮助理解以色列与美国的特殊关系,令人耳目一新。虽然包含了许多重要的细节,但它并没有顾全大局,而是描绘了广泛的总体趋势。第二个优势是戈德曼敏锐的分析洞察力,揭示了自美国建国以来形成历史发展潜意识背景的左翼政治分歧。通过这种分析的深入,戈德曼能够证明基督教对以色列的支持——主要是在新教徒中,在较小程度上在天主教徒中——过去和现在都是以色列建立、支持和发展的核心和决定性部分,其基础是通过基督教对圣经预言的解释将世界的命运和命运解读为圣经。最近,基督教右翼在支持将美国大使馆迁往耶路撒冷、废除奥巴马时代的美伊协议、承认犹太和撒玛利亚不是非法的,而是大卫王和所罗门统治时期以色列的合法边界等方面发挥了作用。第三,高盛能够通过联盟的政治巨变来关注和识别美以关系的明确转折点。例如,高盛的轨迹、图表和地图
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