The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s

by Paul Elie

The origins of our postsecular present, revealed in a vivid, groundbreaking account of the moment when popular culture became the site of religious conflict.

The 1980s are usually seen as a slick, shrill decade. The Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers urged "Death to America"; Ronald Reagan was in the White House, backed by the Moral Majority; John Paul II was asserting Catholic traditionalism and denouncing homosexuality, as were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374272921
• ISBN13: 9780374272920
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"