Here’s the majority of the table of contents for The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter, Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright, editors. The book was published last month by the Society of Biblical Literature.
Introduction:
Elaine M. Wainwright
Texts and Their Afterlives: 1…in Literature: A Frame
1. Some Novel Remarks about Popular Culture and Religion:
Salman Rushdie and the Adaptation of Sacred Texts
Michael Gilmour
Texts and Their Afterlives: 2…in Music and Other Multi-Media
2. Red Dirt God:
Divine Silence and the Search for Transcendent Beauty in the Music of Emmylou Harris
Mark McEntire
3. “Here, There, and Everywhere”:
Images of Jesus in American Popular Culture
Dan W. Clanton, Jr.
4. ‘Tis a Pity She’s (Still) a Whore:
Popular Music’s Ambivalent Resistance to the Reclamation of Mary Magdalene
Philip Culbertson
5. Spittin’, Cursin’, and Outin’:
Hip-Hop Apocalypse in the Imperial Necropolis
Jim Perkinson
6. The Bible and Reggae: Liberation or Subjugation?
Noel Leo Erskine
7. “Help Me Make It Through the Night”:
Narrating Class and Country Music in the Theology of Paul
Tex Sample
8. Jesus of the Moon: Nick Cave’s Christology
Roland Boer
9. Prophetic Voices in Graphic Novels:
The “Comic and Tragic Vision” of Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Kingdom Come and Watchmen
Terry Ray Clark
10. Reading “Pop-wise”:
The Very Fine Art of “Making Do” When Reading the Bible in bro’Town
Steve Taylor
Texts and Their Afterlives: 3…in Literature Again: A Frame
11. Daemons and Angels: The End of the World according to Philip Pullman
Tina Pippin
Responses
12. Close Encounters: The Bible as Pre-Text in Popular Culture
Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele
13. Pop Scripture: Creating Small Spaces for Social Change
Erin Runions