1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chad E. Seales
Energy
1. Sugar
Susannah Crockford
2. Whaling
Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
3. Fossil Fuels
Evan Berry
4. Nuclear
Amanda M. Nichols
5. Renewable
Robin Globus Veldman
Industry
6. Banking
David Walker
7. Manufacturing
Kati Curts
8. Communications
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
9. Pharmaceuticals
Gary Laderman
10. Marketing
Mara Einstein
Public Life
11. Agriculture
Adrienne Krone
12. Architecture
Ann Marie Borys
13. Home
Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar
14. Education
Ari Y. Kelman
15. Workplace
Isaac Weiner
Music
16. Jazz
Tracy Fessenden
17. Gospel and Blues
Paul Harvey
18. Country
Erica Hurwitz Andrus
19. Hip Hop
Christina Zanfagna
20. Punk
Jason C. Bivins
Arts and Entertainment
21. Broadway
Kathryn Lofton
22. Fashion
Kayla Renée Wheeler
23. Sports
Rebecca T. Alpert
24. Comedy
Shanny Luft
25. Television
Elijah Siegler
26. Film
Khytie Brown
Life and Death
27. Healthcare
Elizabeth Sepper
28. Birthing
Pamela E. Klassen and Judith Ellen Brunton
29. Adoption
Alexandra Nelson-Tomlinson
30. Capital Punishment
Randall Styers
31. Artificial Intelligence
John Modern
Index
Biography
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.
