Religion and popular culture in America /
"Since 2000, Religion and Popular Culture in America has been one [of the] standard books used in teaching this area of study. Modestly updated in 2005, it continues to be taught in colleges, universities and theological schools across the continent. The basic four-part structure of Religion an...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the third edition
- Introduction: Finding religion in unexpected places / Bruce David Forbes
- Part I. Religion in popular culture. The origin(s) of Superman : reimagining religion in the Man of Steel / Dan W. Clanton, Jr. ; The Oriental monk in American popular culture / Jane Naomi Iwamura ; Adventure time and sacred history : myth and reality in children's animated cartoons / Elijah Siegler ; Monstrous Muslims : historical anxieties and future trends / Sophia R. Arjana ; The weight of the world : religion and heavy metal music in four cases / Jason C. Bivins
- Part II. Popular culture in religion. Christmas is like a snowball / Bruce David Forbes ; Mipsterz : hip, American, and Muslim / Kristin M. Peterson, Nabil Echchaibi ; Megachurches, celebrity pastors, and the evangelical industrial complex / Jessica Johnson ; People of the picture book : PJ Library and American Jewish religion / Rachel B. Gross ; Meditation on the go : Buddhist smartphone apps as video game play / Gregory Price Grieve
- Part III. Popular culture as religion. It's about faith in our future : Star Trek fandom as cultural religion / Michael Jindra ; Shopping, religion, and the sacred "buyosphere" / Sarah McFarland Taylor ; Losing their way to salvation : women, weight loss, and the religion of thinness / Michelle M. Lelwica ; The "godding up" of American sports / Joseph L. Price ; Celebrity worship as parareligion : Bieber and the Beliebers / Pete Ward
- Part IV. Religion and popular culture in dialogue. Yoga in popular culture : controversies and conflicts / Shreena Niketa Ghandi ; Mirror, mirror, on ourselves : Disney as a site of religio-cultural dialogue / Stephanie Brehm and Myev Rees ; Can watching a movie be a spiritual experience? / Robert K. Johnston ; Rap music and its message : on interpreting the contact between religion and popular culture / Anthony B. Pinn ; Broadswords and face paint : why Braveheart still matters / Curtis D. Coats and Stewart M. Hoover.