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Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case studies address these questions by examining religious representations through late capitalist lenses, including the maintenance of the self, the commodification of the sacred, and the performance of authenticity. The book's fourteen essays explore why religious themes proliferate in reality TV, audiences' fascination with "lived religion," and the economics that make religion and reality TV a successful pairing. Chapters also consider the role of race, gender, and religion in the production and reception of programming.
Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, beliefs, and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Maintenance of the self
Flaunting Christian patriarchy in the 21st century: Todd Chrisley's straight guy with the queer eye
Diane Winston
Making over body and soul: gender, selfhood, and parables of spiritual neoliberalism on Makeover TV
Brenda R. Weber
Black female sexual agency and racialized holy sex in black Christian reality TV shows
Monique Moultrie
Part II: The performance of authenticity
"This is just an incredible God thing": monetized domesticity in bottom-up media
Katherine Madden
"The renovation starts now!": rite-of-passage reality television
Erica Hurwitz Andrus
When the most popular format reaches the most atypical country: reality TV and religion in Israel
Yoel Cohen and Amir Hetsroni
All-American cancellation: spectacle and neoliberal performativity in All-American Muslim
Melinda Q. Brennan
Part III: Niche markets
Sister Wives: the Protestantization of Mormon polygamy
Myev Rees
Paranormal reality television: audience engagement with mediums and spirit communication
Annette Hill
Conjuring spirits in a neoliberal era: ghost reality television, Third Wave spiritual warfare, and haunting pasts
Sean McCloud
Amish reality and reality TV "Amishness": agonism in the cultural marketplace
Stewart M. Hoover
Part IV: Commodification of the sacred
Praying for reality: the invisible hand in Downey and Burnett's Answered Prayers
Sharon Lauricella
"The search for a young Imam begins now": Imam Muda and civilizational Islam in Malaysia
Andrea Stanton
Preachers of Oxygen: franchising faith on reality TV
Mara Einstein
