Disneyanity

DISNEYANITY: Of ‘Walt’ and Religion studies the manner in which popular entertainment can compete with conventional churches as a source of spirituality. DISNEYANITY: Of ‘Walt’ and Religion combines various sorts of genres in an entirely original way. Here is a work of film history, focusing on the Walt Disney Company from its inception until the present day, analyzing individual projects as well as their relationship to one another forming a thematic and aesthetic ‘body of work’; also, a study of the manner in which popular culture, designed as mass entertainment, can emerge into not only a global entrepreneurial industry but also an alternative religion; finally, one of the post–‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ self-help books that aid the reader in rediscovering their often challenged sense of spiritual identity in the difficult modern world, achieving a healthier attitude through ancient wisdom re-presented for a New Age public. What Others are Saying “‘Disneyfication’ became and remain