TY - JOUR

T1 - The occultural significance of The Da Vinci Code

AU - Partridge, Christopher

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - The popularity of books such as The Da Vinci Code is interesting in that it would seem to support surveys indicating at least a general level of public interest in the spiritual and the paranormal. More specifically, an analysis of the dominant ideas articulated in The Da Vinci Code suggests that it is a book reflecting key themes within western ‘occulture’ which have become central to the shift from ‘religion’ to ‘spirituality’ in western societies: the sacralization of the self; the turn from transcendence to immanence; the emergence of the sacred feminine; the focus on nature and the premodern; and a conspiracist suspicion of the prevailing order and dominant institutions, particularly the Church.

AB - The popularity of books such as The Da Vinci Code is interesting in that it would seem to support surveys indicating at least a general level of public interest in the spiritual and the paranormal. More specifically, an analysis of the dominant ideas articulated in The Da Vinci Code suggests that it is a book reflecting key themes within western ‘occulture’ which have become central to the shift from ‘religion’ to ‘spirituality’ in western societies: the sacralization of the self; the turn from transcendence to immanence; the emergence of the sacred feminine; the focus on nature and the premodern; and a conspiracist suspicion of the prevailing order and dominant institutions, particularly the Church.

KW - Da Vinci Code

KW - occulture

KW - re-enchantment

KW - mediatization

KW - sacralization

KW - spirituality

U2 - 10.1386/nl.6.1.107_1

DO - 10.1386/nl.6.1.107_1

M3 - Journal article

VL - 6

SP - 107

EP - 126

JO - Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook

JF - Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook

SN - 1601-829X

ER -