tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post6708734054284657054..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: "Impairing the Morals of 1950s America": St. Elvis & the SupernaturalPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-62496352319198332582014-01-28T18:56:18.467-07:002014-01-28T18:56:18.467-07:00Scott Hoffman's dissertation from Purdue, &quo...Scott Hoffman's dissertation from Purdue, "Haloed By the Nation: Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America," has a chapter on Elvis as a religious icon.<br /><br />http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3185771/<br /><br />Mark T. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687874101232569510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-40232775564974598862014-01-28T17:41:36.124-07:002014-01-28T17:41:36.124-07:00Thanks for this great post. One of the first seni...Thanks for this great post. One of the first senior theses I advised in the early 1990s, when the internet was new, was on Elvis spirituality. I set up a web site for my student's survey and she was able to gather lots of fascinating responses from members of a particular Elvis fan club about people's religious attachments to him, including figuring him as St. Elvis. <br /><br />I can't also help but note that he shares a birthday with Noble Drew Ali.Judith Weisenfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540184099447580269noreply@blogger.com