Diane Winston 
Small Screen, Big Picture [PDF ebook] 
Television and Lived Religion

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

Diane Winston (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Associate Professor and Knight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. She is the author of Faith in the Market: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture (2002), and Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999).