From Routledge Press:
Understanding Religion and Popular Culture 2nd edition provides an accessible introduction to this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Divided into two parts, Issues in Religion and Genres in Popular Culture, it encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious ideas, themes, and values. This edition has been thoroughly revised and includes five new chapters, updated case studies, and contemporary references. Among the areas covered are religion and film, food, violence, music, television, cosplay, and fandom. Each chapter also includes a helpful summary, glossary, bibliography, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading/viewing. Providing a set of practical and theoretical tools for learning and research, this book is an essential read for all students of Religion and Popular Culture, or Religion and Media more broadly. |
I co-edited this volume with Samantha Langsdale, co-wrote the Introduction, and wrote the chapter "How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women’s Perceived Power."
Comics and Sacred Texts was selected as a co-winner of the 2019 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture for the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, my essay is “The Ending of Mark as a Page-Turn Reveal.”
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This is the conference where the scholars who worked on Monstrous Women in Comics gathered to present the first essays that would eventually become the book project.
My chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture is "Nonbiblical Comics Engage the Bible." (More here)
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Dissertation project for University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint PhD
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Presentation for the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional Society of Biblical Literature
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Work In Progress! More Coming!
(Image: X-men Legacy Vol 2 #20, Khoi Pham, Jay Leisten, Rachelle Rosenberg, property of Marvel)