Small Screen, Big Picture

IntroductionDiane WinstonOld Wine in New Skins1. True Believers and Atheists Need not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television DramaS. Elizabeth Bird2. In the Beginning … DeadwoodHorace Newcomb3. The Wire: Playing the GameCraig Detweiler4. "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do": Vernacular Catholicism and The West WingLeonard Norman Primiano5. Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.Vincent Brook6. "The Fire Next Time": Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post 9/11Amir HussainNeither Male nor Female7. "Elect Xena God": Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television CultureSheila Briggs8. "You Know How It Is with Nuns…": Religion and Television’s Sacred/Secular FetusesHeather Hendershot9. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of ArcadiaLanita Jacobs-Huey10. "A Vagina Ain’t a Halo": Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar GalaticaAnthea Butler and Diane WinstonRevelation11. "Chiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!": Nuclear Dread and the Pokémonization of American Religion in Season One of HeroesRudy V. Busto12. You LOST Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC’s LOSTLynn Schofield Clark13. "Have a Little Faith": Religious Vision in Fox’s Prison BreakMarcia Dawkins14. "Who am I? Where am I Going?": Life, Death and Religion in The SopranosAdele Reinhartz15. A Television Auteur Confronts God: the Religious Imagination of Tom FontanaElijah Siegler