Half-Ass Faith?: Popular Culture in Denver's House for All Sinners and Saints
House for All Sinners and Saints (HFASS), a congregation affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, has recently attracted attention for its blend of confessional church tradition and its embrace of popular culture. It attracts the types of people not usually ass...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2018]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-73 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
House for all Sinners and Saints
/ Pop culture
/ Interfaith dialogue
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IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America KDG Free church |
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Summary: | House for All Sinners and Saints (HFASS), a congregation affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, has recently attracted attention for its blend of confessional church tradition and its embrace of popular culture. It attracts the types of people not usually associated with mainstream Christianity, including queers, recovering addicts, and abuse victims. Given these biographies, a range of different subcultures has come together to shape beliefs and practices in unconventional ways. As a reaction to the opposition many members have experienced in the Christian mainstream, the congregation is rumoured to call itself ironically Half-Ass (after the acronym of its name - HFASS). This article frames religion and popular culture as entering into dialogue at House for All Sinners and Saints and discusses the meanings that emerge at this intersection. It argues that popular culture is not employed as a mere catch-all tool to fill the pews but, rather, serves to express deviance and dissent from the religious mainstream, encourage new forms of consciousness regarding being unconventionally Christian, and affirm alternative Christian-and-minority-member identities while simultaneously emphasizing the centrality of the confessional tradition for contemporary American culture. |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-51258 HDL: 10900/109882 |