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Theodore A. Turnau

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Anglo-American University
Czech Republic

Scientist Social and Political Sciences
Biography

Raised in rural Pennsylvania, Ted Turnau attended the University of Virginia (B.A. English), where he met his wife, Carolyn. He then pursued an M.Div. and Ph.D. at Westminster Theological Seminary (his dissertation is on Paul Ricoeur and popular culture). During his time there, he and Carolyn had three : Roger, Claire, and Ruth. After completing his Ph.D. in 1999, the whole family moved to Prague and have lived there since. He is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. He also teaches at Union School of Theology in Wales. Ted published Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective in 2012, and is currently working on two more books. They currently have two cats and a rabbit.

Research Intrest

Culture Studies, Popular Culture, Religion, Worldview, Fandom

List of Publications
Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 346 pp., May 2012. "Popular Culture, Apologetics, and the Discourse of Desire," Cultural Encounters 8:2 (Winter 2012): 25-46.
Displacing the Sacred: Thoughts on the Secularizing Influence in Hollywood," Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology 64 (Spring 2013). Available online in March 2013 at http://www.affinity.org.uk/foundations-issues/issue-64-article-1--- displacing-the-sacred-thoughts-on-the-secularising-influence-ofhollywood.
“Dialogues Concerning Cultural Engagement,” essay in two parts, Foundations 70 (Spring 2016) and 71 (Fall 2016). Part one available online at http://www.affinity.org.uk/foundations-issues/issue-70- article-2---dialogues-concerning-cultural-engagement-part-one. "
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