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Religion and Popular Culture in America Third Edition Edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeff rey H. Mahan university of california press This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:48 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Religion and Popular Culture in America This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:48 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:48 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Religion and Popular Culture in America Third Edition Edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeff rey H. Mahan university of california press This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:48 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Forbes, Bruce David, editor. | Mahan, Jeff rey H., editor. Title: Religion and popular culture in America / edited by Bruce Forbes and Jeff rey H. Mahan. Description: Third edition. | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] | Includes index. Identifi ers: lccn 2016030111| isbn 9780520291447 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 0520291441 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520291461 (pbk. : alk. paper) | isbn 0520291468 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Popular culture--Religious aspects. | Religion and culture—United States. | United States— Religion—1960– Classifi cation: lcc bl2525 .r4613 2016 | ddc 201/.70973—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030111 Manufactured in the United States of America 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:48 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms contents Preface to the Third Edition ix Introduction: Finding Religion in Unexpected Places Bruce David Forbes 1 part i. religion in popular culture 1.The Origin(s) of Superman: Reimagining Religion in the Man of Steel Dan W. Clanton Jr. 33 2.The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture Jane Naomi Iwamura 51 3.Adventure Time and Sacred History: Myth and Reality in Children’s Animated Cartoons Elijah Siegler 71 This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:09:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 4. Monstrous Muslims: Historical Anxieties and Future Trends Sophia Rose Arjana 85 5. The Weight of the World: Religion and Heavy Metal Music in Four Cases Jason C. Bivins 100 part ii. popular culture in religion 6. Christmas Is Like a Snowball Bruce David Forbes 127 7. Mipsterz: Hip, American, and Muslim Kristin M. Peterson Nabil Echchaibi 144 8. Megachurches, Celebrity Pastors, and the Evangelical Industrial Complex Jessica Johnson 159 9. People of the Picture Book: PJ Library and American Jewish Religion Rachel B. Gross 177 10. Meditation on the Go: Buddhist Smartphone Apps as Video Game Play Gregory Price Grieve 195 This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:09:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms part iii. popular culture as religion 11. It’s About Faith in Our Future: Star Trek Fandom as Cultural Religion Michael Jindra 223 12. Shopping, Religion, and the Sacred “Buyosphere” Sarah McFarland Taylor 242 13. Losing Their Way to Salvation: Women, Weight Loss, and the Religion of Thinness Michelle M. Lelwica 262 14. The “Godding Up” of American Sports Joseph L. Price 288 15. Celebrity Worship as Parareligion: Bieber and the Beliebers Pete Ward 313 part iv. religion and popular culture in dialogue 16. Yoga in Popular Culture: Controversies and Confl icts Shreena Niketa Gandhi 337 17. Mirror, Mirror on Ourselves: Disney as a Site of Religio-Cultural Dialogue Stephanie Brehm and Myev Rees 351 18. Can Watching a Movie Be a Spiritual Experience? Robert K. Johnston 373 This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:09:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 19. Rap Music and Its Message: On Interpreting the Contact between Religion and Popular Culture Anthony B. Pinn 390 20. Broadswords and Face Paint: Why Braveheart Still Matters Curtis D. Coats and Stewart M. Hoover 413 Contributors 431 Index 437 This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:09:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms preface to the third edition This third edition of Religion and Popular Culture in America signifi cantly updates a volume that has become a standard text in teaching about religion and popular culture. It continues the structure of the earlier editions, exploring four diff erent relationships between religion and popular culture and the critical approaches out of which those relation- ships arise. This revised and expanded edition includes updated ver- sions of fi ve chapters from previous editions, and fourteen new essays. This expansion gives voice to a wider range of voices and provides greater attention to the diversity of religious life in America. The third edition also gives increased attention to the implications of the emer- gence of digital culture, including the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture. The authors of these essays draw on a wide range of methods to tease out these relationships between religion and popular culture. Some of the chapters take their approaches from the social sci- ences, while others are rooted in the humanities; some bring the tools of religious or theological studies to bear on popular culture, while others use the tools of fi lm and television studies, sociology, and cul- tural studies. All are interested in the ways that religion has developed in the midst of, and adapted to the demands of, a consumer-oriented, ix This content downloaded from 129.219.247.33 on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:09:53 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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