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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture is a much-needed resource for Religious Studies scholars and students interested in the study of religion and culture in the United States. It offers essays profiling cultural sites including energy, industry, public life, music, arts and entertainment, and life and death.
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Introduction PART 1: ENERGY 1. Sugar 2. Whaling 3. Fossil Fuels 4. Nuclear 5. Renewable PART 2: INDUSTRY 6. Banking 7. Manufacturing 8. Communications 9. Pharmaceuticals 10. Marketing PART 3: PUBLIC LIFE 11. Agriculture 12. Architecture 13. Home 14. Education 15. Workplace PART 4: MUSIC 16. Jazz 17. Gospel and Blues 18. Country 19. Hip Hop 20. Punk PART 5: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 21. Broadway 22. Fashion 23. Sports 24. Comedy 25. Television 26. Film PART 6: LIFE AND DEATH 27. Healthcare 28. Birthing 29. Adoption 30. Capital Punishment 31. Artificial Intelligence
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Chad E. Seales is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.A. from the University of Florida, an M.T.S. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research addresses the cultural relationship between religion and secularism in American life. He is the author of
Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism (Penn State University Press, 2019),
The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town (Oxford University Press, 2013),
and has published articles on religion and food, industrial religion, corporate chaplaincy, religion and film, and secularism and secularization in the United States.
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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture is a much-needed resource for Religious Studies scholars and students interested in the study of religion and culture in the United States. It offers essays profiling cultural sites including energy, industry, public life, music, arts and entertainment, and life and death.
