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The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, And Controversy In The 1980S
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Named A Best Book Of The Year By The Washington Post And Los Angeles Times | Named An Essential Read By The New Yorkerthis Enthralling Group Portrait Brings To Life A Moment When Popular Culture Became The Site Of Religious StrifeStrife That Set The Stage For Some Of The Most Salient Political And Cultural Clashes Of Our Day.Circa 1980, Tradition And Authority Are In The Ascendant, Both In Catholicism (Via Pope John Paul Ii) And In American Civic Life (Through The Moral Majority And The SoCalled Televangelists). But The Public Is Deeply Divided On Issues Of Body And Soul, Devotion And Desire.Enter The Figures Paul Elie Calls CryptoReligious. Here Is Leonard Cohen Writing Hallelujah On His Knees In A Times Square Hotel Room; Andy Warhol Adapting LeonardoS The Last Supper In Response To The Aids Pandemic; Prince Making The Cross And Altar Into Signs O The Times. Through Toni Morrison, Spirits Speak From The Grave; Patti Smith And Bruce Springsteen Deepen The TentRevival Intensity Of Their Work; Wim Wenders Offers An AngelSEye View Of Berlin; U2, The Neville Brothers, And Sinad OConnor Reckon With Their Christian Roots In Music Of Mystic Yearning. And Martin Scorsese Overcomes Fundamentalist Ire To Make The Last Temptation Of ChristA Struggle That Anticipates Salman RushdieS Struggle With Islam In The Satanic Verses.In ElieS Acclaimed First Book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Catholic Writers Ventured Out Into The Wilds Of Postwar America; In This Book, Creative Figures Who Were Raised Religious Go To The Margins Of Conventional Belief, Calling Forth Controversy. Episodes Such As The Boycott Sparked By MadonnaS Like A Prayer Video And The TearingUp Of Andres SerranoS Piss Christ In Congress Are Early Skirmishes In The Culture WarsBut Here The Creators (Not The Politicians) Are The Protagonists, And The Work They Make Speaks To Conflicts That Remain Unsettled.The Last Supper Explores The Bold And Unexpected Forms An Encounter With Belief Can Take. It Traces The Beginnings Of Our Postsecular Age, In Which Religion Is At Once Surging And In Decline. Through A Propulsive Narrative, It Reveals The CryptoReligious Imagination As Complex, Credible, Daring, And Vividly Recognizable.
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