Michael Budde offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the global-culture industries' increasingly powerful, centralized corporate conglomerates in television, advertising, marketing, cinema, and other industries, and their impact on Christian churches in industrialized countries.

Responses by churches to the new situationmore religious education or attempts to use the global culture industries for Christian purposesare explored and found lacking. For the subversive praxis of Jesus of Nazareth to endure in the cultural ecology of postmodernism, Budde argues, churches must come to embrace their role as radical and countercultural alternative communities in which lay formation becomes a central preoccupation. }

Following Jesus in a Distracted Age
Why Culture Matters in the World Economy
The Power of Global Culture Industries
Learning the Language of Faith
How Global Culture Industries Undermine Christianity
Church Barriers to Understanding Global Culture Industries
The Way from Here: Radical Gospel, Radical Church