Sean Mccloud: 3 books
American Possessions
Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons. American...
Making the American Religious Fringe
Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions...
Divine Hierarchies
Class in American Religion and Religious Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through...