October 22, 2010 / Theology
In an adapted excerpt from his upcoming new book, Pete Ward discusses how celebrity culture is a “kind of” religion which carries theological ideas as part of popular communication.
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Pete Ward
Pete Ward is Senior Lecturer in Youth Ministry and Theological Education at King's College in London. He is the author of Participation and Mediation: A Practical Theology for the Liquid Church and the forthcoming Gods Behaving Badly: Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture, from which this essay is adapted, by permission of Baylor University Press (2011). He also plays in a folk band.