Beyond Culture Wars: An Introduction to the Study of Religion and Popular Culture

Daniel A. Stout

Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Religion and Popular Culture

The Media, Religion, and Public Opinion: Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Influence

Judith M. Buddenbaum

Touched by Angels and Demons: Religion's Love-Hate Relationship with Popular Culture

Quentin J. Schultze

Religion, Media, and the Cultural Center of Gravity

Stewart M. Hoover

Religion and Popular Culture: Notes from the Technological School

Daniel A. Stout

Part II Institutional Perspectives on Religion and Popular Culture

Christian Perspectives on Mass Media

Judith M. Buddenbaum

Mass Media in the Jewish Tradition

Yoel Cohen

Islam and Western Culture: Navigating Terra Incognita

Allen W. Palmer

Abdullahi A. Gallab

The Formation of Interpretive Communities in the Hindu Diaspora

Rashmi Luthra

Part III Empirical Studies, Essays, and Case Studies

The Role of Religion and Culture in Tolerance for First Amendment Freedoms in a Southern California Vietnamese Community

Tony Rimmer

Jeffrey Brody

Southern Baptists as Audience and Public: A Cultural Analysis of the Disney Boycott

Hillary Warren

Critics as Audience: Perceptions of Mormons in Reviews of Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Daniel A. Stout

Joseph D. Straubhaar

Gayle Newbold

Coming out of Abstinence: A Root-Metaphor Study of Nazarenes' Relation to Movies and Media

John Douglas Lepter

Thomas R. Lindlof

Church Ties and Use of Radio News Genres for Political Information

Judith M. Buddenbaum

Testifications: Fan Response to a Contemporary Christian Music Artist's Death

Stephen D. Perry

Arnold S. Wolfe

Branding Religion: Christian Consumers' Understandings of Christian Products

Eric Haley

Candace White

Anne Cunningham

Media Literacy as a Support for the Development of a Responsible Imagination in Religious Community

Mary E. Hess

Contributors

Index