Eric Mazur and Kate McCarthy

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Exploring the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth and persistence of religious themes in the American consciousness. This new edition reflects the explosion of online activity since the first edition, including chapters on the spiritual implications of social networking sites, and the hazy line between real and virtual religious life in the online community Second Life. Also new to this edition are chapters on the migration of black male expression from churches to athletic stadiums, new configurations of the sacred and the commercial, and post 9/11 spirituality and religious redemption through an analysis of vampire drama, True Blood. Popular chapters on media, sports, and other pop culture experiences have been revised and updated, making this an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Eric Michael Mazur is the Gloria & David Furman Chair of Judaic Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of several works in church-state studies, and is the editor of Art & The Religious Impulse and The Encyclopedia of Religion & Film. Kate McCarthy is Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Chico. She is also the author of Interfaith Encounters in America.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Finding Religion in American Popular Culture	1
Pt. 1	Popular Myth and Legend	17
	Deliver Me from Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen and the Myth of the American Promised Land	23
	Oprah, Phll, Geraldo, Barbara, and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Negotiating the Supernatural on American Television	47
	A Fire in the Sky: "Apocalyptic" Themes on the Silver Screen	65
	Selena - Prophet, Profit, Princess: Canonizing the Commodity	83
Pt. 2	Popular Ritual	103
	Blood in the Barbecue?: Food and Faith in the American South	109
	Symptomatic Expression of Male Neuroses: Collective Effervescence, Male Gender Performance, and the Ritual of Football	123
	Dropping in for the Holidays: Christmas as Commercial Ritual at the Precious Moments Chapel	139
	Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art: Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival	155
Pt. 3	Popular Spirituality and Morality	177
	Cathy on Slenderness, Suffering, and Soul	181
	God in the Box: Religion in Contemporary Television Cop Shows	199
	Our Ladies of the Airwaves: Judge Judy, Dr. Laura, and the New Public Confessional	217
	Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons	231
Pt. 4	Popular "Churches"	249
	The Thin Line between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Meaning and Community among Jimmy Buffett's Parrotheads	253
	Building Community Word by Word: Religion in the Virtual World	267
	Rap Music, Hip-Hop Culture, and "The Future Religion of the World"	281
	The Happiest Place on Earth: Disney's America and the Commodification of Religion	299
	Contributors	317
	Index	321

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