(Magic) Kingdom of God
Christianity and Global Culture Industries

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.

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