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ABC Family Channel 60 anti-religion 2, 67–68
Aborigines 100 Apostle 65
abortion 261 archetype theories 66–67, 75, 281
Abraham interview 198–200 art 76
Abu-Lughod, Lila 299n.62 articulating culture: expectations 96–
acceptance of media 34–36, 75, 91, 98; identity and narrative 91–92;
143, 265–66, 271 interviews and narratives 98–112;
access to the media 26, 119–21, 138– narratives as research 92–96; talking
39, 144, 168–69 about media 86–91
accounts of media: commonalities 201, artifacts 35, 301n.46
203; contradictions 161–62, 287– artificial intelligence 134
88; distinctions 144–45; explanation assumptions 208
of 88–90, 94; going beyond 205; atheism 50–51
identity 220; negative ideas 106; self authenticity 2, 67, 272
133 authority: born-again Christians 166;
advertising 28–29, 47, 241, 300n.12, conclusions 286–87; loss of 234;
305n.47 source of 259–61; suspicion of 143,
agnosticism 50–51 150, 203
Ajami, Fouad 241, 242 autoethnography 91
Al Jazeera 241 autonomy: assumptions 203–4;
Al-Qaida 240–41 commonalities 260; conclusions
Albanese, Catherine 71 269–70, 286–87; focus on 16; iden-
Albert interview 163–66, 268 tity 97; seeking 52, 130, 137, 143,
All God’s Children and Blue Suede 144
Shoes (Meyer) 15
“All Seasons Chalice” 51 Baby Boomers 52–53, 54, 77–83, 288
Allen interview 170–73 Barry, David W. 33
Allen, Woody 160 Baudrillard, Jean 12
Alters, Diane F. 174, 316n.13 Baylor interview 214–15, 216–17, 225–
American Academy of Religion 18 27
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman) Beavis and Butthead 160
15 behavior 41, 95, 212–13
Anderson interview 190–91 Beliefnet 48
Andy Griffith Show 106, 107, 206, Bell, Catherine 245
228–29, 272, 310n.38 Bellah, Robert 77, 245
Angel 64 Bennett, William 15, 300n.11
Anglicanism 19 Benny Hinn 213, 274
anomie 97, 110 Berger, Peter 71
anthropology 14, 16 best-sellers 62