University of Greenwich in Greenwich
Shirley Steinberg
Christotainment: Identifying the Corporatization of Jesus and Christian Power Brokers
Shirley Steinberg is the co-founder and director of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. At present, she teaches at McGill University. Her most recent books include: Christotainment: Selling Jesus Through Popular Culture (2009); Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader (2009); Media Literacy: A Reader (2007); the award winning Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia; Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (2010, 2004) and The Miseducation of the West: How Schools and Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islam World (2004). She is also the founding editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, and the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy.