God in the Details
Subtitle: American Religion in Popular Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 29, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415925631
First sentence: At recent conference on using popular culture in the university classroom, an English professor made the case that popular sitcom Friends is a clever repackaging of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, that Star Wars retells Book One of The Faerie Queene, and that the Simpsons is really a contemporary take on Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.