A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: Old Wine in New Skins
- 1. True Believers and Atheists Need Not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television Drama
- 2. In the Beginning . . . Deadwood
- 3. The Wire: Playing the Game
- 4. "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Doâ: Vernacular Catholicism and The West Wing
- 5. Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.
- 6. "The Fire Next Timeâ: Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post 9/11
- Section II: Neither Male nor Female
- 7. âElect Xena Godâ: Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television Culture
- 8. âYou Know How It Is with Nuns . . .â: Religion and Televisionâs Sacred/Secular Fetuses
- 9. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia
- 10. âA Vagina Ainât a Haloâ: Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galactica
- Section III: Revelation
- 11. âChiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!â: Nuclear Dread and the PokĂ©monization of American Religion in Season One of Heroes
- 12. You Lost Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABCâs Lost
- 13. âHave a Little Faithâ: Religious Vision in Foxâs Prison Break
- 14. âWho Am I? Where Am I Going?â: Life, Death, and Religion in The Sopranos
- 15. A Television Auteur Confronts God: The Religious Imagination of Tom Fontana
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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