{"product_id":"the-last-supper-by-paul-elie-9781250437938","title":"The Last Supper","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCirca 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 so-called televangelists). But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and soul, devotion and desire. Enter the figures Paul Elie calls \"crypto-religious.\" Here is Leonard Cohen writing \"Hallelujah\" on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardo's \u003cem\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/em\u003e in response to the AIDS pandemic; Prince making the cross and altar into \"signs o' the times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Toni Morrison, spirits speak from the grave; Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen deepen the tent-revival intensity of their work; Wim Wenders offers an angel's-eye view of Berlin; U2, the Neville Brothers, and Sinéad O'Connor reckon with their Christian roots in music of mystic yearning. And Martin Scorsese overcomes fundamentalist ire to make \u003cem\u003eThe Last Temptation of Christ\u003c\/em\u003e - a struggle that anticipates Salman Rushdie's struggle with Islam in \u003cem\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/em\u003e 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 crypto-religious imagination as complex, credible, daring, and vividly recognizable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900913926380,"sku":"9781250437938","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250437938-the-last-supper.jpg?v=1783435755","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-last-supper-by-paul-elie-9781250437938","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}