"The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music, television shows and advertising. Includes information on apocalypticism, Augustine, Accenture, Apple, Google, McDonalds, MTV, Starbucks, bricolage, confession, Disney, Dogma (film), existentialism, commodity fetishism, God, the Gothic, guilt, the holy, idols and idolatry, Jesus Christ, Immanuel Kant, The Life of God (as Told by Himself), Friedrich Nietzsche, divine providence, Puritans and puritanism, religious symbols, sin, Six Feet Under (HBO series), Paul Tillich, tattoos, body piercings and scarification, simularum, etc." (Publisher description)
PART I: THEORIES OF POPULAR CULTURE
1 Popular Culture, 29
2 Cultural Studies, 53
3 Theology and Culture, 72
4 Theological Tools, 101
PART II: A THEOLOGY OF POPULAR CULTURE
5 Images of God, 135
6 Human Nature, 177
7 Sin, 211
8 Salvation, 229
9 Life Everlasting, 262
Conclusion, 291