Bumper stickers are a fairly common mode of simple religious expression in our modern culture. After all, one of the main functions of religion in human society is to create a cohesive community. Bumper stickers are a quick and easy way to show affiliation to a particular community, a marker that other people can connect to under otherwise anonymous circumstances. By taking pieces of a tradition’s “system of symbols” and condensing it into a few words and bright colors to be plastered on the back of a car, these stickers make the “moods and motivations” that they represent “seem uniquely realistic,” and applicable to contemporary life.
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