ABSTRACT

Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores:

  • key issues of definition and of methodology
  • religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments
  • representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture, including important non-Western spheres such as Bollywood

This Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

ByJohn C. Lyden

part |30 pages

Approaching the Discipline of Religion and Popular Culture

chapter |14 pages

Definitions

What is the subject matter of “religion and popular culture”?
ByJohn C. Lyden

chapter |14 pages

Conversations and Confessions

Who's writing about this, and why?
ByEric Michael Mazur

part |361 pages

Encounters with Popular Culture

chapter |4 pages

Mediated Encounters

ByJohn C. Lyden, Eric Michael Mazur

chapter |24 pages

Television

ByElijah Siegler

chapter |15 pages

Journalism

ByJolyon P. Mitchell

chapter |20 pages

Film

ByJohn C. Lyden

chapter |15 pages

Radio

ByTona Hangen

chapter |22 pages

Music

ByMark Hulsether

chapter |17 pages

Video- and Internet Games

ByRachel Wagner

chapter |15 pages

Internet and Social Networking

ByHeidi A. Campbell, Paul Emerson Teusner

chapter |14 pages

Advertising

ByTricia Sheffield

chapter |3 pages

Material Encounters

ByJohn C. Lyden, Eric Michael Mazur

chapter |23 pages

Popular Literature

ByJennie Chapman

chapter |18 pages

Comics/Graphic Novels

ByChristine Hoff Kraemer, A. David Lewis

chapter |18 pages

Food and Cooking

ByBenjamin E. Zeller

chapter |15 pages

Fashion

ByEdward Dutton

chapter |20 pages

Games and Dolls

ByNikki Bado, Rebecca Sachs Norris

chapter |32 pages

Kitsch

ByLeonard Norman Primiano

chapter |3 pages

Locative Encounters

ByJohn C. Lyden, Eric Michael Mazur

chapter |19 pages

Shopping and Consumption

BySarah McFarland Taylor

chapter |20 pages

Electronic Dance Music Events

ByGraham St John

chapter |22 pages

Sport

ByJeffrey Scholes

chapter |18 pages

Monuments of Civil Religion

ByDarryl Caterine

part |156 pages

Religious Traditions

chapter |18 pages

Buddhism

ByJames Mark Shields

chapter |21 pages

Roman Catholicism

ByRodger M. Payne

chapter |20 pages

Hinduism

BySheila J. Nayar

chapter |17 pages

Islam

ByWilliam Lafi Youmans

chapter |24 pages

Judaism

ByEric Michael Mazur

chapter |18 pages

Mormonism

ByLynita K. Newswander, Chad B. Newswander, Lee Trepanier

chapter |19 pages

Contemporary Paganism

ByJodie Ann Vann

chapter |15 pages

Protestantism

ByClive Marsh