![]() The Shack is a story about a Christian man, Mack, who encounters God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit one weekend after experiencing a family tragedy. Part two of the study uses discriminate analysis to measure the deterritorializing effect of these parasocial processes on levels of theological commitment (conservative, moderate, liberal) among the readership. Four scales are tested – rhizomatic, machinic, minoritarian, and reterritorializing associations made within the literary framework – while extending Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of “minor” literature to evangelical “partisan spaces” in an attempt to better understand the illusive character and function of avant-garde story forms. In this study, 525 respondents recruited from Internet blogging sites associated with the book completed questionnaires measuring their identification and parasocial interaction with liked, neutral, and disliked levels of association with the character of God – a matriarchal black woman named “Papa” – and the book’s main protagonist “Mack” Phillips in order to test how the story deterritorializes patriarchal equivalencies in favor of enhanced intimacy – “love” or “feeling loved by God.” Part one of this study uses the survey questionnaire with exploratory factor analysis to pull out latent variables that point to how people identify with The Shack’s two main characters. ![]() Drawing upon the philosophy and literary theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the researcher explores the processes underlying the anthropomorphism of God in The Shack (William Paul Young, 2007). ![]()
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