Buddy Christ and Jesus Action Figure
Contemporary (ab)use of the Christ image(?): thoughts on the political meanings of two postmodern anti-Christs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12720641 |
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| Authors | Steve Nolan (0000-0001-9625-8273, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-327 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture and Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-5610 • E-ISSN: 1475-5629 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14755610601063401 |
| OpenAlex | W1958425360 |
| Language | EN |
Two diminutive, mass produced statues of Christ, Buddy Christ and Jesus Action Figure seem intended as postmodern anti-Christs to offend Christian sensibilities and mock the image of Christ. I suggest, however, that the statuettes have an excess of meaning that is remaindered as a residual respect for Christ as a spiritual guide, whose enduring political leadership subverts religious hypocrisy. An atheistic/Marxist defence of Christology provides my theoretical base to explore the statuettes, the cult of the Sacred Heart provides an historical example of subversive piety and an editor of the Gay Times' supplies an urgent challenge to reclaim the Christ of Faith as a spiritual and cultural inheritance from the religious right
Action (physics · Art · Baptism · Eucharist · Faith · Historicism · Hypocrisy · Literature · Piety · Politics · Postmodernism · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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