A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz

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Insightful journey into Schulz's spiritual Peanuts backdrop.

If you've ever found comfort or wisdom in the Peanuts comic strips, "A Charlie Brown Religion" offers a compelling look behind the scenes. It delves into Charles M. Schulz's life, revealing how his faith influenced his work. You'll gain a new appreciation for the depth of the characters and stories that may have been part of your own life's backdrop.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz

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ISBN: 9781496804686
Authors: Stephen J. Lind
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 116 readers)

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Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh, sigh, gasp, and ponder. A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming work--religion. Based on new archival research and original interviews with Schulz's family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. In his lifetime, aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist. Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorist's own complex, intense journey toward understanding God and faith. "There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people," Linus says, "Religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Yet with the support of religious communities, Schulz bravely defied convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the "funny pages," a secular, mainstream entertainment medium. This insightful, thorough study of the 17,897 Peanuts newspaper strips, seventy-five animated titles, and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe, what it means to doubt, and what it means to share faith with the world.
 

Insightful journey into Schulz's spiritual Peanuts backdrop.

If you've ever found comfort or wisdom in the Peanuts comic strips, "A Charlie Brown Religion" offers a compelling look behind the scenes. It delves into Charles M. Schulz's life, revealing how his faith influenced his work. You'll gain a new appreciation for the depth of the characters and stories that may have been part of your own life's backdrop.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.