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...
The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power. Despite the cultural winds of the past century, Miss America continues to captivate the nation, giving America what it wants most--sex,...
Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
by W. Scott Poole
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481308823
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our past--a hideous obsession...
The sacred ethos of the American Dream has become a central pillar of American civil religion. The belief that meaning is fashioned from some mixture of family, friends, a stable career, and financial...
Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit--Joel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a masterful...
How Western Culture Uses, Confuses, (and Sometimes Abuses) Adam and Eve
by Linda S. Schearing and Valarie H. Ziegler
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602585430
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2013
Format: Paperback
Sex, seduction, and the perfect marriage. Though it may not have been the intent of Genesis 1-3, the biblical first couple has been used for generations to sell consumable goods and strange ideologies--both...
Gone are the days of enjoying life's simple pleasures for pleasure's sake. Twenty-first-century Americans are on a mission to cram every second of their earthly existence with significant accomplishments...
Maybe you have seen the board games. Christianity has Vatican: The Board Game; Journeys of Paul, Armor of God and Divinity (the only game to have the imprimatur of the Catholic Church). Islam and...
Dispatches from the Intersection of Christianity and Pop Culture
by Tom Breen
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781602580190
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: January 2008
Format: Paperback
Acclaimed "Internet Theologian" Tom Breen has written a satirical, tongue-in-cheek exploration of pop Christianity. Whether pondering why there are so many Christian rock bands but so few good Christian...
