Secular religion of fandom :
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: New Delhi Sage 2016Description: x, 108 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9781473907799Subject(s): Subculture | Fans (Persons) | Mass mediaDDC classification: 306.1Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Kannur University Central Library Stack | Stack | 306.1 BIC/S (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 44326 |
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306.0967 BAR/H A history of African popular culture | 306.0973 LEV/B Blurring the boundaries: The declining significance of age | 306.098 CUP/D Development and decolonization in Latin America | 306.1 BIC/S Secular religion of fandom : | 306.1 WAL/D Doing Cultural Theory. | 306.2 CIV Civil society and peacebuilding: A critical assessment | 306.2 DAV Political power and social theory |
'The Secular Religion of Fandom' examines the function of fandom, specifically the visiting of spaces which have been recently deemed worthy of sanctification and a newly elevated status of importance. It examines how such pilgrimages are used as a means for forming and maintaining a common language of culture, creating a replacement apparatus based on more traditional frameworks of religious worship and salvation, while becoming an ever more dominant mechanism for constructing individuality and finding belonging in a commodified culture
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