Small Screen, Big Picture

Introduction
Diane Winston
Old Wine in New Skins
1. True Believers and Atheists Need not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television Drama
S. Elizabeth Bird
2. In the Beginning … Deadwood
Horace Newcomb
3. The Wire: Playing the Game
Craig Detweiler
4. "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do": Vernacular Catholicism and The West Wing
Leonard Norman Primiano
5. Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.
Vincent Brook
6. "The Fire Next Time": Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post 9/11
Amir Hussain
Neither Male nor Female
7. "Elect Xena God": Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television Culture
Sheila Briggs
8. "You Know How It Is with Nuns…": Religion and Television’s Sacred/Secular Fetuses
Heather Hendershot
9. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia
Lanita Jacobs-Huey
10. "A Vagina Ain’t a Halo": Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galatica
Anthea Butler and Diane Winston
Revelation
11. "Chiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!": Nuclear Dread and the Pokémonization of American Religion in Season One of Heroes
Rudy V. Busto
12. You LOST Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC’s LOST
Lynn Schofield Clark
13. "Have a Little Faith": Religious Vision in Fox’s Prison Break
Marcia Dawkins
14. "Who am I? Where am I Going?": Life, Death and Religion in The Sopranos
Adele Reinhartz
15. A Television Auteur Confronts God: the Religious Imagination of Tom Fontana
Elijah Siegler