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God in the details : American religion in popular culture
- Title
- God in the details : American religion in popular culture / edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xviii, 331 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Finding Religion in American Popular Culture / Eric Mazur and Kate McCarthy -- Part One: Popular Myth and Symbol 1. Deliver Me from Nowhere : Bruce Springsteen and the Myth of the American Promised Land / Kate McCarthy -- 2. True Blood : The Material and the Spiritual on HBO / Leonard Primiano -- 3. A Fire in the Sky : 'Apocalyptic' Themes on the Silver Screen / Jon R. Stone -- 4. Sexuality, Blasphemy and Iconoclasm in the Media Age : The Strange Case of the Buddha Bikini / James Mark Shields -- Part Two: Popular Ritual 5. Blood in the Barbecue : Food and Faith in the American South / Wade Clark Roof -- 6. Rituals of the African American Domus: Church, Community, Sport and Lebron James / Vernon Andrews -- 7. Dropping in for the Holidays : Christmas as Commercial Ritual at the Precious Moments Chapel / Jennifer Rycenga -- 8. Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art : Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival / Sarah M. Pike -- Part Three: Popular Spirituality and Morality 9. Is God Still in the Box? Religion in Contemporary Television Cop Shows Ten Years Later / Elijah Siegler -- 10. Don't Act Now! Selling Christian Abstinence in the Religious Marketplace / Sara Moslener -- 11. When 'Friend' Becomes a Verb : Religion on the Social Web / Daniel Veidlinger -- 12. Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church : Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons / Lisle W. Dalton, Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica L. Siems -- Part Four: Popular 'Churches' 13. The Thin Line Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning : Meaning and Community Among Jimmy Buffett's Parrotheads / Julie J. Ingersoll -- 14. Our Lady of Persistent Liminality : Virtual Church, Cyberspace and Second Life / Rachel Wagner -- 15. Rap Music, Hip-Hop Culture, and 'The Future Religion of the World' / Robin Sylvan -- 16. The Happiest Place on Earth : Disney's America and the Commodification of Religion / Eric Michael Mazur and Tara K. Koda.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-122
- ISBN
- 9780415485364 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415485363 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415485371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415485371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009041550
- OCLC
- YBP 2009041550
- Title
- God in the details : American religion in popular culture / edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Mazur, Eric Michael.McCarthy, Kate, 1962-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-122