Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-511) and index.

1. Old wine in new skins. True believers and atheists need not apply : faith and mainstream television drama / S. Elizabeth Bird -- In the beginning... Deadwood / Horace Newcomb -- The wire : playing the game / Craig Detweiler -- "For what I have done and what I have failed to do" : vernacular Catholicism and The west wing / Leonardo Norman Primiano -- Mixed blessing : generational effects of interfaith marriage in Ever wood and the O.C. / Vincent Brook -- "The fire next time" : Sleeper cel l and Muslims on television post-9/11 / Amir Hussain -- 2. Neither male nor female. "Elect Xena God" : religion remixed in a (post-)television culture / Sheila Briggs -- "You know how it is with nuns..." : religio n and television's sacred/secular fetuses / Heather Hendershot -- Moral izing whiteness in Joan of Arcadia / Lanita Jacobs-Huey -- "A vagina ai n't a halo" : gender and religion in Saving grace and Battlestar galact ica / Andrea D. Butler, Diane Winston -- 3. Revelation. "Chiariidaa o s ukue, sekai o sukue!" : nuclear dread and the Pokémonization of Ameria n religion / Rudy V. Busto -- You lost me : mystery, fandom, and religi on in ABC's Lost / Lynn Schofield Clark -- "Have a little faith" : reli gious vision in Fox's Prison break / Marcia Alesan Dawkins -- "Who am I ? Where am I going?" : life, death, and religion in the Sopranos / Adel e Reinhartz -- A television auteur confronts God : the religious imagin ation of Tom Fontana / Elijah Siegler.

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