Lyden J.C., Mazur E.M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture

London; New York: Routledge, 2015. — 602 p. — (Routledge Religion Companions). — ISBN: 978-0-415-63866-1.Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: key issues of definition and of methodology; religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments; representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture, including important non-Western spheres such as Bollywood.
This Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work.Introduction / John C. Lyden
Definitions: what is the subject matter of "religion and popular culture"? / John C. Lyden
Conversations and confessions: who's writing about this, and why? / Eric Michael Mazur
Television / Elijah Siegler
Journalism / Jolyon P. Mitchell
Film / John C. Lyden
Radio / Tona Hangen
Music / Mark Hulsether
Video- and Internet games / Rachel Wagner
Internet and social networking / Heidi A. Campbell and Paul Emerson Teusner
Advertising / Tricia Sheffield
Popular literature / Jennie Chapman
Comics/graphic novels / Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis
Food and cooking / Benjamin E. Zeller
Fashion / Edward Dutton
Games and dolls / Nikki Bado and Rebecca Sachs Norris
Kitsch / Leonard Norman Primiano
Shopping and consumption / Sarah McFarland Taylor
Electronic dance music events / Graham St. John
Sport / Jeffrey Scholes
Monuments of civil religion / Darryl Caterine
Buddhism / James Mark Shields
Roman Catholicism / Rodger M. Payne
Hinduism / Sheila J. Nayar
Islam / William Lafi Youmans
Judaism / Eric Michael Mazur
Mormonism / Lynita K. Newswander, Chad B. Newswander, and Lee Trepanier
Contemporary paganism / Jodie Ann Vann
Protestantism / Clive Marsh