Beautiful Babies, Hidden Mothers, and Plasticized Prisoners: The Display of Bodies and Theories of American Religion
Issue: Vol 43 No. 2 (2014)
Journal: Bulletin for the Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
Abstract:
This essay responds to the papers presented in the collection "Beautiful Babies, Hidden Mothers, and Plasticized Prisoners: The Display of Bodies and Theories of American Religion," addressing some of the theoretical issues that the papers raise.
Author: Amy Koehlinger
References :
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle. Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator, (New York: Zone Books, 1994).
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday Books, 1959).
Colleen McDannell, The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).