Richard Lewis Resources

CULTURE RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

Books and Culture

A thoughtful Christian magazine that analyzes the latest books and cultural trends.

Culture Machine

Based out of the UK, this online journal seeks to offer an international perspective on issues of culture. Academic.

Theculturebeat.com

A blog for folks who love God and want to integrate that into their surrounding culture.

Thunderstruck.org

A website on faith and pop culture

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Geertz, Clifford. (2000) Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, 480pp.

Hofstede, Gert et al. (2002) Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures. Intercultural Press, 234pp.

Hunger, James. (1992) Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. Basic Books, 432pp.

Lewis, Richard. (2002) The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century. Intercultural Press,  338pp.

CULTURE STUDY GUIDE

• Begin a study of the subject of culture in a good encyclopedia—see articles on "culture" and "society."
• Go next to standard anthropology and sociology texts. Read the introductory chapters on "culture."
• A good understanding of our culture and how it affects young people can be found in chapters 3 and 4 of Hans Sebald’s Adolescence: A Social Psychological Analysis, (3rd ed.).
• Social critics such as Vance Packard, David Reismann, Peter Berger and Marty Martin provide further analysis of American culture. Neil Postman (The Disappearance Of Childhood) and David Elkind (The Hurried Child and All Grown Up And Nowhere To Go) deal with ways in which American culture negatively affects young people.
• Take special questions or interests to the Periodical Guide, various indices of social sciences, and to the library card system. In these, one will find further reading about the particular cultural issue of interest.