@article {2068, title = {Who would Jesus bomb? The Republican Jesus meme and the fracturing of ideology}, journal = {Social Media + Society}, volume = {2}, year = {2016}, month = {Jan-March}, pages = {1-12}, abstract = {This project joins a growing conversation about the cultural significance of memes (and Internet memes in particular), offering a critical analysis of Republican Jesus{\textemdash}one popular image macro that mocks contemporary American conservatism{\textemdash}in order to illustrate the rhetorical potential of these putatively harmless do-it yourself (DIY) creations. Ultimately, I argue that Republican Jesus offers a critique of contemporary conservatism that creates {\textquotedblleft}perspective by incongruity{\textquotedblright} and, thereby, creates a space for ideological struggle.}, keywords = {Ideology, Jesus, meme}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305116637095$\#$articleCitationDownloadContainer}, author = {Duerringer, C. A} } @inbook {301, title = {There is no Spoon? The Matrix, Ideology, and The Spiritual logic of Late Capital}, booktitle = {Teaching Religion and Film}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, keywords = {Ideology, religion, spiritual}, author = {Grieve, Gregory} }