Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857283295 ISBN 13: 9781857283297

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality.
Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

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Review

"This helpful sourcebook strives to be 'anatomically correct' to the religious demography of New York, providing more on Catholics and Jews, Hispanics and African Americans, than Buddhists, Methodists, or New Age devotees. There's virtue in this approach, and the texture is rich. If you think of New York as a monument to secularity--or as positively the work of the Devil--this book will make you think again."-John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University

"A first and welcomed attempt to map the spiritual landscape of New York City. New York Glory covers deftly the old changing denominations as well as the new immigrant religions. Old assumptions about secular Gotham may need some revision after reading this broad collection."-Jose Casanova, author of "Public Religions in the Modern World"

"The editors are to be encouraged for gathering together original material from some of the most current research on relgions in the city."-"American Jewish History",

"In "New York Glory" the usually peripheral becomes foreground, and the core background."-"Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion",

"These two edited volumes bring together a variety of authors to offer a rear combination: they focus on religion in urban America and on particular cities, namely New York City and Chicago...They are necessary reading for anyone who seeks to understand this area."-"Sociology of Religion",

Synopsis

This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural and communications studies, and as a core text for courses on cultural theory and as a supplementary text for social and political theory courses. An overview of cultural theory after postmodernism which provides a user-friendly introduction for students. Theorists assess the postmodernist project, mapping out the future terrain for a critical approach to cultural theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857283295
• ISBN 13: 9781857283297
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287
• Editor: Adam Barbara, Allan Stuart