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- Madonna is an Italian-American singer-songwriter raised Catholic (born 1958), who has incorporated in her works abundant references of religious themes of different religion and spiritual practices, including Christianity (i.e. Catholicism), Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism and Kabbalah among others. A scholar described her as "perhaps the first artist of our time to routinely and successfully employ images from many spiritual cultures and multiple religious traditions". Various theologians, academics and sociologists of religion among others have studied the figure of Madonna in their areas, generating both praise and controversy. Professor Arthur Asa Berger summed up that Madonna has raised to authors many questions about religion. Across various decades, her forays with spiritual practices, statements, behavior and usage of religious imagery, have been criticized by religious groups and leaders, including the Vatican State. A number of clergies were positive to neutral towards Madonna. Internationally, various religious believers staged protests against Madonna in numerous events. The Parliament of Egypt unwanted her visit to the country as a result of her 2004 stop to Holy Land, Israel. She was often accused of sacrilege, heresy, iconoclasm and blasphemy by her detractors. Madonna herself, has taken various opportunities to declare that she believes in God/Jesus, and disapproves of idolatry and paganism. A vast array of observers commented the ambivalent influence in popular culture about her religious views and usage of religious symbols since she burst on the scene in the 1980s and the ongoing decades, sometimes tagged as a dichotomy. A group gave Madonna credit to opening up new ways of experience and express, and new ways for addressing works with its religious meanings to numerous academics. According to diverse sources, Madonna has been an important medium to introduce into the mainstream culture practices such as Kabbalah or yoga, as well as to reinforce the Hindu "invasion" of the West. Madonna is also a noticeable figure for the new meaning of word "icon" (of religious overtones) as documents semiotician Marcel Danesi as well others, with her name appearing in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary or Diccionario panhispánico de dudas to illustrate this new usage in popular culture. According to an art historian she is called by some "The Holy Mother of Pop", while Seventh-day Adventist magazine Sings of the Times recalls that some have adopted an alienated view of Madonna as the "Great Whore of Babylon". (en)
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- Madonna drew disapproval of international religious leaders such as Pope John Paul II and Yitzhak Kaduri (en)
- Madonna has often merged religious iconography and themes in her visuals and works, provoking controversies (en)
- According to academic Ana Wortman at Latin American Council of Social Sciences , Madonna is also a "cultural object" in the sense of cultural anthropology; and as cultural artifact, some wear her image in T-shirts. In the image, actresses Iyari Limon and Adriana Torrebejano wearing T-shirts with Madonna's face. (en)
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- Perhaps Madonna's displays of religion and her belief that she 'reeks of Catholicism' is part of God's unfolding will for her to be Madonna, virgin, open and loving, and perhaps mother as well. (en)
- The latest atavistic discoverer of the pagan heart of Catholicism is Madonna. (en)
- The term "iconography" would pass into high culture, and later in the twentieth century, into popular culture, where "icon" refers to a secular celebrity such as Madonna. (en)
- Madonna's use and manipulation of Christian symbolism unleashed a new trajectory of meanings and associations for those symbols quite outside the control and purview of institutional religious authority, much to the chagrin of religion leaders. (en)
- Perhaps the first artist of our time and certainly the most successful to routinely employ facile images from many spiritual cultures and multiple religious traditions is the pop music star Madonna. (en)
- Madonna is the original and ultimate marriage of celebrity and the Catholic imagination [...] she was the first major popstar to reference symbols that defined a Catholic upbringing (en)
- Since Madonna's time in the media spotlight, we are several cultural cycles removed from the idea that traditional religious imagery points directly and unambiguously to the divine. (en)
- The success of Madonna as an international pop star cannot be disconnected from the religious history she created through her relationship to a series of religious authorities —Catholic, Hindu, and Jewish— and who she incited to reply to her ostensible profanations. (en)
- Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, saw no reason to go to war for Madonna, whom many Islamic clergymen regarded as a worse threat than Saddam. (en)
- The God that I believe in, created the world [...] He/Her/They [sic] isn't a God to fear, it's a God to give thanks to [...] The idea that in any church you go, you see a man on a cross and everyone genuflects and prays to him [...] in a way it's paganism/idolatry because people are worshipping a thing (en)
- Madonna is virulently criticized by various kinds of Protestants as well as Catholics, and also by Jews [...] Madonna projects the eternal image of the Babylon prostitute. (en)
- Madonna, star, queen and divinity, but also sometimes scapegoat [...] Goddess and priestess of her own cult, she upsets the adepts of more traditional cults: Christian, Muslims and Jews. (en)
- Italian Catholicism informs just about everything Madonna does, most often in ways that are not officially sanctioned. (en)
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- —Diane Winston, professor of religion and media . (en)
- —Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (en)
- —Madonna about religion on Today and Andrew Denton's Interview respectively (en)
- —French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth (en)
- —Queer Religion , in discussing some dichotomy effects after Madonna. (en)
- —Professor Andrew Tomasello cited by scholars David Rothenberg and Benjamin Brand . (en)
- —From a 2018 BBC Culture article (en)
- —Historians Asa Briggs and Peter Burke . (en)
- —Media Events in a Global Age . (en)
- —Social critic, Camille Paglia (en)
- —The New Leader . (en)
- —Catholic priest Michael P. Sullivan, Sun-Sentinel (en)
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