Pop cultural manifestations of America’s folk piety
• Christian Fundamentalism
Do Gibson's Passion and Brown's Code appeal to the conspiracy seeing simple-minded folks?
What Gibson’s ultra-traditionalist film and Brown’s trendy heterodox novel have in common is their connection to a wide current of popular religiosity that operates wholly apart from mainstream faith-based scholarship or denominational discipline. The problems with Gibson’s literalist reliance on the problematic Gospel of Matthew have been widely discussed. Two knowledgeable reviewers from perspectives raised similar issues concerning Brown’s book.
Time Rutten, ‘The Passion,’ ‘The Code’ and a presidential election