Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...study of popular culture has come under the fire of educational traditionalists, who charge that the university is a place to study high art--not vulgar forms of entertainment. They see infinitely more value in a treatise on Spinoza than a paper on Spike...
This position is not only elitist, but dangerous. Without the study of modern popular culture--including television, film, radio and other mass media--the academy risks becoming completely isolated from much of the real world...
...begin with a more thorough study of American society by offering more courses on popular culture...
...least a preliminary year in a retreat house, deepening their spiritual calling and refreshing their knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Seminaries should also take more care in selecting the faculty who will instruct and guide new priests, the bishops proposed. And while on-the-job training in parishes became popular in the years after Vatican II, seminaries are now going back to the basics, with heavier emphasis on daily prayer and the study of theology, particularly the writings of the early church fathers...
...After the dust settles, everyone will reassess this particular problem. There is a need to look at the issue of democracy and popular participation. Otherwise the area is vulnerable. I don't think things can return to what they were...