Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
The Pink Nun is an underground feminist performance artist, chastity advocate and pious evangelical Christian. In her artwork, the Pink Nun ironically deploys the methodologies and visual vocabulary of late American consumer capitalism, such that the evangelical Christian values of chastity and sexual purity become products to be bought and sold. In this unorthodox appropriation of capitalism, the Pink Nun finds an alternative way to preach her message, engage a self-announcing secular culture, and perhaps ultimately “harvest souls.” I argue that religion here does not perform in a conventionally “religious” way; it may be manifest more subtly, entwined with and disguised by the overarching economic system.
Recommended Citation
Hazard, Sonia M., "The Art of the Pink Nun: Evangelical Christianity and the Performance of Capitalism" (2008). Religious Studies Honors Projects. 5.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/reli_honors/5
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