Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Texts and Their Afterlives in Literature: A Frame -- Some Novel Remarks about Popular Culture and Religion: Salman Rushdie and the Adaptation of Sacred Texts, Michael J. Gilmour -- Texts and Their Afterlives in Music andOther Multimedia -- Red Dirt God: Divine Silence and the Search for Transcendent Beauty in the Music of Emmylou Harris, Mark McEntire -- "Here, There, and Everywhere": Images of Jesus in American Popular Culture, Dan W. Clanton Jr. -- 'Tis a Pity She's (Still) a Whore: Popular Music's Ambivalent Resistance to the Reclamation of Mary Magdalene, Philip Culbertson -- Spittin', Cursin', and Outin': Hip-Hop Apocalypse in the Imperial Necropolis, Jim Perkinson -- The Bible and Reggae: Liberation or Subjugation?, Noel Leo Erskine -- "Help Me Make It through the Night": Narrating Class and Country Music in the Theology of Paul, Tex Sample -- Jesus of the Moon: Nick Cave's Christology, Roland Boer -- Prophetic Voices in Graphic Novels: The "Comicand Tragic Vision" of Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Kingdom Come and Watchmen, Terry Ray Clark -- Reading "Pop-Wise": The Very Fine Art of "Making Do" When Reading the Bible in bro'Town, Steve Taylor -- Texts and Their Afterlives in Literature Again: A Frame -- Daemons and Angels: The End of the World according to Philip Pullman, Tina Pippin -- Responses -- Close Encounters: The Bible as Pre-Text in Popular Culture, Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele -- Pop Scripture: Creating Small Spaces for Social Change, Erin Runions -- Contributors -- Index.