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How Is Jesus Presented In Popular Culture

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In this essay, I will be explaining and highlighting the ways, Jesus is presented in popular culture. I will be explaining and highlighting the positive and negative effects of this question through three concepts and theories, which is transcribed, contextualized and satirized. Additionally, I will explain the four different types of New Testament, which are Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John as these gospels tell us what individuals believed about Jesus. Popular Culture is defined, as arranged as beliefs, practices, and objects that demonstrate through cultural products such as high culture, mass culture, and folk culture that represented in social systems. Considering popular culture changes or shifts during over the time period, where this is …show more content…

Satirized, are the drawings, and painting of Jesus looks like, such as Jesus is representing by drawings, paintings, and other art. Satirized represented Jesus in the popular culture through the way is portrayed and depict through exaggeration, humor, and irony, that shows Jesus’s religions by commodification. Where Jesus was portrayed and represented in popular culture through a ridicule and negative way. Such as, (Burridge, 2014) Mathew’s gospels of the New Testament, he explains how the drawings could have influences on the societies, such as the effects of Jesus biting rhetoric might have on other individuals, which could be positive and negative influences of the societies, but where this leads to way Jesus being represented in the societies through popular culture. Considering in today's century, Jesus is being represented in the popular culture in a negative way such as that the products of Jesus is being used in ways to create more money in the capitalist economy and also that social media is mocking Jesus and the fundamentals beliefs of the culture of Christianity as Jesus had “risen from death”, Such as in the 21st century Jesus is being portrayed as a powerless prophet, Whereas this shows the stereotypes and racisms due to the fundamentals beliefs of the Christianity religion, as the people of the societies have become more secular. As comparing back to the bible, Jesus was represented through the formative symbols and images of Jesus that shows faith within the societies but however due to the new generations, this historical symbols and images were destroyed, such as the young youth of the new generations is use Jesus in the popular culture like TV shows and music, to emulate Jesus in a negative way. Like for example (Forbes, & Mahan, 2017) family guy, there was a character that represented Jesus but was not shown as the depict person, but more shown as a powerless person,

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