Koschorke, Albrecht. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 208 + viii pp. $32.50 (USD). ISBN: 0-231-12756-1.
[1] This brief, provocative cultural history looks at the holy family (Mary, Joseph and Jesus) as a code or archetype that our "postreligious society" may ignore, but for the last two millennia has infiltrated "the deep structure of its imagination" (5). Koschorke clearly loves writing about the relationship between religion and popular culture (in the broadest sense ...