God in the Details American Religion in Popular Culture

Name: God in the Details American Religion in Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780415485371

ISBN-10: 0415485371

ISBN-13: 9780415485371

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Eric Mazur, Kate McCarthy

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Book details

List price: $32.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Finding Religion in American Popular Culture



Popular myth and symbol



Deliver Me from Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen and the Myth of the American Promised Land




ï¿½I Wanna Do Bad Things With Youï¿½: Fantasia on Themes of American Religion from the Title Sequence of HBO's True Blood




A Fire in the Sky: ï¿½Apocalypticï¿½ Themes on the Silver Screen




Sexuality, Blasphemy, and Iconoclasm in the Media Age: The Strange Case of the Buddha Bikini




Popular ritual



Blood in the Barbecue? Food and Faith in the American South




Rituals of the African American Domus: Church, Community, Sport, and LeBron James




Dropping in for the Holidays: Christmas as Commercial Ritual at the Precious Moments Chapel




Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art: Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival




Popular spirituality and morality



Is God Still in the Box? Religion in Television Cop Shows Ten Years Later




Don't Act Now! Selling Christian Abstinence in the Religious Marketplace




When ï¿½Friendï¿½ Becomes a Verb: Religion on the Social Web




Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons




Popular ï¿½Churchesï¿½



The Thin Line between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Meaning and Community among Jimmy Buffett's Parrotheads




Our Lady of Persistent Liminality: Virtual Church, Cyberspace, and Second Life




Rap Music, Hip-Hop Culture, and ï¿½The Future Religion of the Worldï¿½




The Happiest Place on Earth: Disney's America and the Commodification of Religion



Index