Dr. Iwan Russell-Jones is Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts, and the Head of the Christianity and the Arts Program at Regent College. He has over 25 years of experience as a producer and director for the BBC, in both television and radio, and is a founding co-editor of the Ship of Fools website. For four years, he taught at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where he set up a new department to explore the interaction between faith, media, and contemporary culture.
Hidden Creeds: Sacred Themes in Popular Culture
Speaker(s): Iwan Russell-Jones
Date: Feb 3, 2011
Length: 78 min
Product ID: RGDL4100C
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In this lecture Iwan Russell-Jones examines the nature of the sacred in contemporary culture: What does the sacred look like, what does it mean, and how does it manifest itself? He suggests that we find the sacred in all kinds of forms which we normally wouldn't associate with religion.
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