Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index.
Contents:
The Oriental monk in American popular culture / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Consecrating consumer culture: Christmas television specials / Robert J. Thompson -- Re-mythologizing the divine feminine in The Da Vinci code and The secret life of bees / Jennie S. Knight -- Like a sermon: popular religion in Madonna videos / Mark D. Hulsether -- Evangelicals and popular music: the contemporary Christian music industry / William D. Romanowski -- The internet and Christian and Muslim communities / Greg Peterson -- The cross at Willow Creek: seeker religion and the contemporary marketplace / Stewart M. Hoover -- It's about faith in our future: Star trek famdom as cultural religion / Michael Jindra -- Losing their way to salvation: women, weight loss, and the salvation myth of culture lite / Michelle M. Lelwica -- An American apotheosis: sports as popular religion / Joseph L. Price -- The church of baseball, the fetish of Coca-Cola, and the potlatch of rock 'n' roll / David Chidester -- The disguise of vengeance in Pale rider / Robert Jewett -- Rap music and its message: on interpreting the contact between religion and popular culture / Anthony Pinn -- The gender dynamics of the Left behind series / Amy Johnson Frykholm -- Conclusion: establishing a dialogue about religion and popular culture / Jeffrey H. Mahan
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