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Small screen, big picture: television and lived religion
Diane H. Winston-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page vii)
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Introduction (Diane Winston, page 1)
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Section I: Old Wine in New Skins
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1 True Believers and Athiests Need Not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television Drama (S. Elizabeth Bird, page 17)
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2 In the Beginning...Deadwood (Horace Newcomb, page 43)
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3 The Wire: Playing the Game (Craig Detwiler, page 69)
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4 "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do": Vernacular Catholicism and The West Wing (Leonard Norman Primiano, page 99)
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5 Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C. (Vincent Brook, page 125)
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6 "The Fire Next Time": Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post-9/11 (Amir Hussain, page 153)
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Section II: Neither Male nor Female
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7 "Elect Xena God": Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television Culture (Sheila Briggs, page 173)
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8 "You Know How It Is with Nuns...":Religion and Television's Sacred/Secular Fetuses (Heather Hendershot, page 201)
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9 Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia (Lanita Jacobs-Huey, page 233)
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10 "A Vagina Ain't a Halo": Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galactica (Anthea D. Butler and Diane Winston, page 259)
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Section III: Revelation
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11 "Chiariida o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!": Nuclear Dread and the Pokémonization of American Religion in Season One of Heroes (Rudy V. Busto, page 289)
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12 You Lost Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC's Lost (Lynn Schofield Clark, page 319)
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13 "Have a Little Faith": Religious Vision in Fox's Prison Break (Marcia Alesan Dawkins, page 343)
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14 "Who Am I?" Where Am I Going?": Life, Death, and Religion in The Sopranos (Adele Reinhartz, page 373)
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15 A Television Auteur Confronts God: The Religious Imagination of Tom Fontana (Elijah Siegler, page 401)
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Epilogue (Diane Winston, page 427)
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Notes (page 433)
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Bibliography (page 489)
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Contributors (page 513)
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Index (page 517)
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Baylor University Press
- 9781602581852 (paper)