Limits of Religious Analogy: The Example of Celebrity
Focusing on celebrities is often compared to a religious behavior, be it by the actors when describing their own practices or by scholars when using analogies with “cult”, “sacralization” or “sanctification”. Such comparisons appear to be both obvious and hardly convincing, since they merely evoke,...
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MDPI AG
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/3/1/71 |