Contents

• Introduction
• Michael J. Gilmour. Radios in Religious Studies Departments: Preliminary Reflections on the Study of Religion in Popular Music
• Section One: Religious Sources behind Popular Music
• Daniel Maoz. Woman as Shekhinah: Kabbalistic References in Bob Dylan's Infidels
• James Knight. "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore": Protest and Promise in Woody Guthrie and the Jesus Tradition
• Michael J. Gilmour. The Prophet Jeremiah, Aung San Suu Kyi, and U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind: On Listening to Bono's Jeremiad
• Section Two: Religious Themes in Popular Music
• Karl J. McDaniel. Suffering and Sacrifice in Context: Apocalypticism and Life beyond Les Miserables. Brian Froese. Comic Endings: Spirit and Flesh in Bono's Apocalyptic Imagination, 1980-1983
• Anna Kessler. Faith, Doubt, and the Imagination: Nick Cave on the Divine-Human Encounter
• Paul Martens. Metallica and the God That Failed: An Unfinished Tragedy in Three Acts
• Harold Penner. The Nature of His Game: A Textual Analysis of "Sympathy for the Devil"
• J. R.C. Cousland. God, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Vi(t)a Negativa of Nick Cave and P. J. Harvey
• Randall Holm. "Pulling Back the Darkness": Starbound with Jon Anderson
• Section Three: Religion and Popular Music's Audiences
• Angela M. Nelson. "God's Smiling on You and He's Frowning Too": Rap and the Problem of Evil
• Tim Olaveson. Transcendent Trancer: A Scholar Experiences Rave in Central Canada
• Andreas Hager. Under the Shadow of the Almighty: Fan Reception of Some Religious Aspects in the Work and Career of the Irish Popular Musician Sinead O'Connor
• Thomas Nesbit. Planet Rock: Black Socioreligious Movements in Early 1980s Electro
• Melanie Takahashi. Spirituality through the Science of Sound: The DJ as Technoshaman in Rave Culture
• Maxine Grossman. Jesus, Mama, and the Constraints on Salvific Love in Contemporary Country Music.