{"id":3885,"date":"2013-07-04T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2013-07-04T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T15:20:14","slug":"recent-book-reviews-published-taking-pop-culture-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2013\/recent-book-reviews-published-taking-pop-culture-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent book reviews published &#8211; Taking pop culture seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MB Herald asked me to review two books recently. \u00a0Both authors are compelled to help us think Christianly about culture \u2013 particularly culture that is made possible by electricity. \u00a0Turner investigates the broader expressions of leisure activity such as film, fashion, comedy, and photography, while Schuurman focuses specifically on computer technology. They both reject a kind of Luddite cultural separatism, and then elaborate what it means to consume, create, and critique culture as a biblically-rooted experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbherald.com\/shaping-a-digital-world-popcultured\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/books\/dp\/0830827137\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Books-Shaping-Digital\" src=\"http:\/\/mbherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Books-Shaping-Digital.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Books-popcultured\" src=\"http:\/\/mbherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Books-popcultured.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MB Herald asked me to review two books recently. \u00a0Both authors are compelled to help us think Christianly about culture \u2013 particularly culture that is made possible by electricity. \u00a0Turner investigates the broader expressions of leisure activity such as film, fashion, comedy, and photography, while Schuurman focuses specifically on computer technology. They both reject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[141,142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}