Popular Culture

Saffron-robed priests and long-haired experts became common characters at the American pop culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the modern fascination with japanese spirituality and gives a cultural heritage of the illustration of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with priests, specialists, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a large choice of ethnic backgrounds and non secular traditions supplied preliminary engagements with Asian non secular traditions. digital Orientalism indicates the evolution of those interactions, from direct engagements with particular participants to mediated kinfolk with a conventionalized icon: the Oriental Monk. Visually and psychically compelling, the Oriental Monk turns into for american citizens a ''figure of translation''--a handy image for substitute spiritualities and modes of being. throughout the determine of the solitary Monk, who generously and purposefully stocks his knowledge with the West, Asian religiosity is made manageable-psychologically, socially, and politically--for pop culture intake. Iwamura's insightful research exhibits that even though renowned engagement with Asian religions within the usa has elevated, the truth that a lot of this has taken digital shape makes stereotypical structures of "the non secular East" stubborn and particularly tricky to challenge.

This multidisciplinary examine of Scientology examines the association and the controversies round it during the lens of pop culture, referencing videos, tv, print, and the Internet—an strange point of view that might interact quite a lot of readers and researchers.

• Discusses Scientology in the framework of pop culture, that's how most folks outdoors the faith are available in touch with it

• methods the examine of Scientology from a number of viewpoints, permitting readers to have an educated, multicultural point of view at the spiritual group's ideals and practices from which to shape their very own opinion

• offers information regarding Scientology derived from one of many biggest college archive collections at the topic around the globe, with a couple of files by no means sooner than having been referenced in scholarship

Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for top Scholarly/Academic Work.

Bringing jointly participants from a wide-range of serious views, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic background of the various contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. overlaying comedian books, superhero comics, photograph novels and caricature strips from the early twentieth century to the current, the publication explores the ways that Black comedian artists have grappled with such issues because the Black adventure, gender identification, politics and social media.

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces scholars to such key texts as:
The paintings of Jackie Ormes
Black girls superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther
Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks

Postcolonialism has attracted a large number of curiosity in cultural idea, however the adjoining zone of multiculturalism has no longer been scrutinised to rather a similar volume. during this leading edge new publication, Sneja Gunew units out to interrogate the ways that the transnational discourse of multiculturalism could be relating to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her dialogue in quite a few nationwide settings and various literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts. utilizing examples from marginal websites - the "settler societies" of Australia and Canada - to solid gentle at the globally dominant discourses of the U.S. and the united kingdom, Gunew analyses the political ambiguities and the pitfalls occupied with a discourse of multiculturalism haunted via the opposing spectres of anarchy and assimilation.

writer E.R. Vernor, most sensible referred to as Corvis Nocturnum brings you the 10 yr anniversary multiplied variation of his unique reveal. the author displays on what has replaced and stayed an identical, with much more insights, interviews and pictures by no means visible sooner than. the writer brings you an unparalleled selection of Satanists, vampires, sleek primitives, darkish pagans, and Gothic artists, all talking to you of their personal phrases. those are those that have taken whatever such a lot others locate scary or damaging, and woven it into notable acts of creativity and religious imaginative and prescient. Corvis himself is a depressing artist and visionary, and so it truly is with the attention of a kindred spirit that he has sought those humans out to percentage their tales with you.

Cold-pressed juices, quitting sugar, Paleo, scorching yoga, mindfulness … in case you embody these items you'll be satisfied, you'll be good – simply ask Instagram. wellbeing has turn into an international mega-industry. yet does any of these things really work?

Feeling exhausted, frightened and out of form, journalist Brigid Delaney makes a decision to determine – utilizing herself because the guinea pig. beginning with a brutal 101-day fast,

Brigid exams issues that are supposed to make us fresh, lean and serene. traveling the area, she attempts colonics, meditation, silent retreats, team psychotherapy and oodles of yoga, figuring out what's valuable and what's simply dear hype.

In monasteries and future health farms, on mountaineering trails and therapeutic massage tables, she asks, why accomplish that many people swing from indulgence to detox and again back? Is it attainable to combine strong behavior into your lifestyle? What does our obsession with wellbeing say approximately us? And why do you odor so undesirable if you happen to haven’t eaten in seven days?

‘Brigid Delaney is the queen of calamity and a fearless, sane advisor into the unusual center of our sleek obsessions. this may make you groan in horror up to it’ll make you snort out loud.’ —Benjamin Law

‘A bloody pleasing learn that leaves you thinking about no matter if you must do yoga and meditation or get mindlessly under the influence of alcohol and melancholy on the nation of the area. primarily I want that I’d written it.’ —Judith Lucy

‘At final! A humorous, well-written paintings of first-person gonzo reportage relating all of the wellbeing and fitness and serenity remedies you have ever been too feeble in my opinion to adopt. give some thought to this publication as an enjoyable semi-colonic.’ —Annabel Crabb

Brigid Delaney is a senior author for Guardian Australia. She has formerly labored as a attorney and journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald, the Telegraph (London), ninemsn and CNN. She is the writer of 2 books: This stressed Life and Wild Things.

Wie verhandeln Jugendliche in alltäglichen Lebenszusammenhängen das Verhältnis von Geschlecht und sexueller Orientierung? Unter dieser zentralen Fragestellung werden in der Studie empirische Ergebnisse vorgestellt, die Gender/Queer reviews, bildungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven und politische Bildungspraxis verbinden. Die examine der Mikropolitiken adoleszenter Zugehörigkeitsarbeit entlang der Achsen Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung wird dabei als grundlegend für die Weiterentwicklung von Professionalität in einer teilhabeorientierten geschlechtersensiblen politischen Bildung ausbuchstabiert.