Thou Shalt Kill … Carefully: Secular Religion, the Immanent Frame, and Showtime's Dexter

This article uses the television series Dexter as a space to explore the practice of religion in a secular society. Employing critical discourse analysis, which focuses on the causal relationships between discursive practices or texts and sociocultural processes, we situate the habitual killing acti...

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Main Author: Pittman, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2015]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 171-185
Further subjects:B Secular
B Television
B Religion
B Ritual
B Dexter
B Sacred
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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