The Gospel and Popular Culture Bibliography

Bryan Stone

Albanese, Catherine
	1997	“Religion and American Popular Culture: An Introductory Essay,” Journal of American Academy of Religion 64:4 (Winter), 733-742.
Beaudoin, Tom
	1998	Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Chidester, David
	2005	Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Clapp, Rodney
	2000	Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Cobb, Kelton
	1995	“Reconsidering the Status of Popular Culture in Tillich’s Theology of Culture,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63:1 (Spring), 53-84.
	2005	The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Blackwell,
Cunningham, David S.
	2002	Reading is Believing: The Christian Faith through Literature and Film. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Dark, Davd
	2002	Everyday Apocalypse. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Dean, William
	2002	The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies. New York: Continuum.
Detweiler, Craig and Barry Taylor
	2003	A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Dyrness, William A.
	2001	Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Faller, Stephen
	2004	Beyond the Matrix: Revolutions and Revelations. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Forbes, Bruce David and Jeffrey H. Mahan (Eds)
	2005	Religion and Popular Culture in America. Revised Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Goff, Philip and Paul Harvey, eds.
	2004	Themes in Religion and American Culture. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina.
Greeley, Andrew
	1988	God in Popular Culture (Chicago: Thomas More).
Griffith, R. Marie
	2004	Born Again Bodies. Berkeley: University of California.
Hall, David D. (Ed)
	1997	Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hibbs, Thomas S.
	1999	Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from the Exorcist to Seinfeld. Dallas: Spence Publishing.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64:4 (Fall 1996)
	1996	This thematic issue devotes hundreds of pages to the study of “religion and American popular culture.” Articles are supplied by Catherine L. Albanese, David Chidester, Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle, Stephen D. O’Leary, and Brenda E. Brasher.
Lippy, Charles H.
	1994	Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Long, Charles H.
	1987	“Popular Religion,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Mircea Eliade, et al. New York: Macmillan.
Lynch, Gordon
	2005	Understanding Theology and Popular Culture. Blackwell
Lyon, David
	2000	Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Mattingly, Terry
	2005	Pop Goes Religion: Faith and Culture in America. Nashville: W Publishing Group
Mazur, Eric Michael and Kate McCarthy (Eds)
	2001	God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
McDannell, Colleen
	1995	Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Moore, R. Laurence
	1994	Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
	2003	Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
Nelson, John Wiley
	1976	Your God Is Alive and Well and Living and Appearing in Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Westminster).
Ostwalt, Conrad
	2003	Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press.
Pahl, Jon
	2003	Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.
Pinsky, Mark I.
	2004	The Gospel According to Disney. Louisville: Westminster Press.
Plate, S. Brent
	2002	Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader. New York: Palgrave.
Prothero, Stephen
	2003	American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. Farrar Straus & Giroux
Robertson, C. K., ed.
	2002	Religion as Entertainment. New York: Peter Lang.
Romanowski, William D.
	1996	Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press.
	2001	Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.
Roof, Wade Clark
	1999	Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sack, Daniel
	2000	Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture. New York: Palgrave.
Sample, Tex
	1994	Ministry in an Oral Culture: Living with Will Rogers, Uncle Remus, and Minnie Pearl. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
	1998	The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World. Nashville: Abingdon.
Schultze, Quentin J
	1993	“Civil Sin: Evil and Purgation in the Media,” Theology Today 50 (July), 229-242.
Schultze, Quentin J, et al
	1991	Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture and the Electronic Media. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Sweet, Leonard
	2007	The Gospel According to Starbucks: Living with a Grande Passion. Waterbrook Press.
Warren, Michael
	1997	Seeing Through the Media: A Religious View of Communications and Cultural Analysis. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press.
Williams, Linda, ed.
	2004	Porn Studies. Duke University Press.
Winter, Richard
	2002	Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment: Rediscovering Passion and Wonder. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press.
Wuthnow, Robert
	2003	All in Sync: How Music and Art are Revitalizing American Religion. Berkeley: University of California.
Consumerism
Beaudoin, Tom
	2004	Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy. Sheed and Ward
deChant, Dell
	2002	The Sacred Santa: The Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press.
Horsley, Richard and James Tracy, eds.
	2001	Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International.
Miller, Vincent J.
	2003	Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture. New York: Continuum.
Quart, Alissa
	2004	Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers. Basic Books.
Ritzer, George
	1996	The McDonaldization of Society (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press).
Twitchell, James
	1999	Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism (New York: Columbia University Press).
Religion and Popular Literature
Birzer, Bradley J.
	2003	Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth. Wilmington: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Fiddes, Paul S.
	1999	Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine. Mercer.
	2000	The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature. Blackwell
Forbes, Bruce David and Jean Halgren Kilde, eds.
	2004	Rapture, Revelation, and The End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series. New York, Palgrave MacMillan.
Garrett, Greg
	2005	Holy Superheroes! Exploring Faith and Spirituality in Comic Books. Colorado Springs: Pinon Press.
Gilvin, Brandon
	2004	Solving the DaVinci Code Mystery. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Gilvin, Brandon and Heather Godsey
	2004	Wisdom from the Five People You Meet in Heaven. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Harken, Amy Lignitz
	2005	Unveiling the Secret Life of Bees. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Harken, Amy Lignitz and Lee Hull Moses
	2005	Gifts of Gilead. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Granger, John
	2002	The Hidden Key to Harry Potter: Understanding the Meaning, Genius, and Popularity of Joanne Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels. Hadlock, WA: Zossima Press.
Neal, Connie
	2002	The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World’s Most Famous Seeker. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
Polaski, Sandra Hack
	2006	Inside the Red Tent. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Wood, Ralph C.
	2003	The Gospel According to Tolkien. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
Religion and Popular Music
Cluck, Darrell W., Catherine S. George, and J. Clinton McCann, Jr.
	1999	Facing the Music: Faith and Meaning in Popular Songs. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press.
Cone, James
	1992	The Spirituals and the Blues. Maryknoll: Orbis.
Dyson, Michael Eric
	1997	Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture. Oxford University Press.
	2001	Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur. BasicCivitas Books.
Forman, Murray
	2004	That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Routledge.
Gee, Alex and John E. Teter
	2003	Jesus and the Hip-Hop Prophets: Spiritual Insights from Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur. Intervarsity Press.
Gilmour, Michael J.
	2004	Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture. Continuum.
Gilmour, Michael J., ed.
	2005	Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music. Continuum.
Holder, Timothy
	2006	The Hip-Hop Prayer Book. Church Publishing Incorporated.
Perry, Imani
	2004	Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Duke University Press.
Sample, Tex
	1996	White Soul: Country Music, The Church, and Working Americans. Nashville: Abingdon
Scharen, Christian
	2006	One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Smith, Efrem and Phil Jackson
	2006	The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture. InterVarsity Press.
Stockman, Steve
	2005	Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. Relevant Books.
Sylvan, Robin
	2002	Traces of the Spirit: Religious Dimensions of Popular Music. New York: New York University Press.
Vagacs, Robert
	2005	Religious Nuts, Political Fanatics: U2 in Theological Perspective. Cascade.
Veith, Gene Edward and Thomas L. Wilmeth
	2001	Honky-Tonk Gospel: The Story of Sin and Salvation in Country Music (Grand Rapids: Baker).
Whiteley, Raewynne J. and Beth Maynard, Eds.
	2003	Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog. Cowley Publications.
Religion and Sports
Evans, Christopher H. and William R. Herzog, editors
	2002	The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
Higgs, Robert J. and Michael C. Braswell
	2004	An Unholy Alliance. Macon: Mercer University Press
Hye, Allen E
	2004	The Great God Baseball. Macon: Mercer University.
Ladd, Tony and James A. Mathisen
	2002	Muscular Christianity: Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sports. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Magdalinski, Tara and Timothy J. L. Chandler, editors
	2002	With God on Their Side: Sports in the Service of Religion. New York: Routledge.
Price, Joseph L
	2000	From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
Religion and Television
Davis, Walter T., et al, eds.
	2001	Watching What We Watch: Prime-Time Television through the Lens of Faith. Louisville, KY, Geneva Press.
Kraemer, Ross S. et al, eds.
	2003	Religions of Star Trek. Cambridge: Westview Press.
Lowney, Kathleen S.
	1999	Baring Our Souls: TV Talk Shows and the Religion of Recovery. New York: Walter DeGruyter
Monroe, Shawnthea
	2006	Not-So-Desperate: Fantasy, Fact, and Faith on Wisteria Lane. Chalice.
Nelson, Marcia Z.
	2005	The Gospel According to Oprah. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
Piatt, Christian
	2006	Lost: A Search for Meaning. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Pinsky, Mark I.
	2001	The Gospel According to the Simpsons. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.
Porter, E. Jennifer and Darcee L. McLaren, editors
	1999	Star Trek and Sacred Ground. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Seay, Chris
	2002	The Gospel according to Tony Soprano (Lake Mary, FL: Relevant Books).
Religion and Theatre
Bradley, Ian
	2004	You’ve Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.
Information Technology, Internet, Virtual Reality
Schultze, Quentin
	2004	Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Page. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
Journals on Popular Culture
Bitch: Feminist Responses to Pop Culture
		http://www.bitchmagazine.com/
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
		http://www.imagesjournal.com/index.html
The Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Film and Television
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
		http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/index.html
The Other Journal: An Intersection of Theology and Culture
		http://www.theotherjournal.com
Relevant Magazine
		http://www.relevantmagazine.com
Websites
The Media Studies Working Group of Ryerson University Bibliography
		http://www.ryerson.ca/mgroup/popcult.html
Popcultures.com
		http://www.popcultures.com/
Washington State University Popular Culture Website
		http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html