Rutgers Offers Class About Bruce Springsteen’s Theology

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Bruce Springsteen’s Theology

Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies)

This seminar offers a theologically oriented approach to Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics. We will focus on Springsteen’s reinterpretation of biblical motifs, the possibility of redemption by earthly means (women, cars, music), and his interweaving of secular and sacred elements. Springsteen’s work will also be situated within the broader poetic tradition that casts the writer as a religious figure whose message does not effect transcendent salvation, but rather, transforms earthly reality.

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01:090:101 section 95 index 37413