Gods Behaving Badly: Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture

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161 INDEX Alexander the Great, 92–93 American Idol, 4 analogy, 3, 6, 11, 16, 21, 30, 32, 33, 66, 74, 76, 83–84, 88, 98, 108, 129 Aniston, Jennifer, 116 Barthes, Roland, 21–22 BBC, 9, 10, 12, 134n, 135n, 137n, 149n, 150n, 151n, 152n, 154n, 154n, 155n, 158n Beaudoin, Tom, 78–85 Becker, Boris, 120 Beckham, David and Victoria, 44, 51, 109, 120 Big Brother, 10, 18, 30–33, 36, 46, 48, 57, 78, 80, 96, 114, 116, 118, 124 Bolan, Marc, 11 Bono, 2, 118, 126, 123–24 Boyd, Malcolm, 4 Bradley, Ian, 6 Calvin, John, 87 Caputo, John, 77 Cashmore, Ellis, 22, 27, 40, 45, 47, 52–53, 99, 100, 103, 105–6, 125–26 celebrity gods, 3–8, 10–14, 16–18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 58–68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 77–80, 82–108, 110–22, 124, 126–33, 144–46, 151–58 celebrity symbols, 3–4, 7, 15, 21, 27, 29, 32, 36–37, 48, 63–65, 71–73, 78–79, 83, 86, 94, 101, 104, 113, 127, 128, 129 162 Index celebrity worship, 3–9, 10–18, 20–23, 25, 27–33, 38, 39, 52–54, 56, 58–69, 70–82, 89–91, 93, 94, 96, 97–98, 101, 107–8, 116, 118, 121, 131–33, 135–37, 145–46, 152, 154–57, 158–59 Chidester, David, 73–74, 83 Cobain, Kurt, 11 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 105 Diana, Princess, 10, 14–17, 22, 26–27, 65, 85, 96, 101–4, 124 divinization, 6, 102, 103 Doss, Erica, 23–24, 31, 76 Durkheim, Emile, 62–64, 82 Dyer, Richard, 50–51, 94 Eliade, Mircea, 67–82, 96 fake religion, 73–74 Frith, Mark, 46–49 Frow, John, 30–31, 53, 65 Gamson, Joshua, 29, 46–49, 106 Geertz, Clifford, 63–64, 82, 86 Goody, Jade, 10, 16, 17, 28, 45, 96, 117, 119 Greek mythology, 54, 58, 92–93, 100 Guardian (newspaper), 2, 10, 134n, 148n, 150n Hall, Stuart, 36–43, 46, 51, 57, 75, 96, 98, 126 Heat (magazine), 2, 46–48, 106–7 Heelas, Paul, 7, 69–70, 82 Hello! 16, 106, 113–15 Hervieu-Léger, Danièle, 74–75 Hilton, Paris, 43–46, 50, 100 Hoover, Stuart, 55, 72 identification/disidentification, 3, 12, 14, 22, 27–30, 37, 40, 52–56, 76, 78, 81–85, 90, 93–94, 99–102, 110–11, 121, 129 Jackson, Michael, 2, 9, 13, 16, 17–18, 23, 28, 90, 98 judgment, 2, 8, 18, 84, 87–88, 110–13, 130–32 Laderman, Gary, 4, 5, 13, 90, 98 Ledger, Heath, 10 Lennon, John, 12–13 lived religion, 75–76 Lynch, Gordon, 68–69 Madonna, 16, 35, 37, 40–42, 50, 51, 78–79, 101, 117, 128–29 media, 1, 3–5, 7, 9–19, 21, 23, 26–36, 38, 40–50, 53, 55–58, 61, 65, 67–77, 80, 84–88, 90–98, 100–8, 113, 117–22, 124, 127, 130, 131 Moore, Demi, 2, 113–14 Morin, Edgar, 21–22, 59, 95, 97, 136 Morrison, Jim, 11 myth, 4, 6, 21, 54, 59–61, 68, 72, 77, 81–84, 90–105, 110, 124, 127 Index 163 National Enquirer, 2, 16, 48, 88, 106, 115 New York Times, 2 numinous, 65–66, 83 Osbourne, Ozzy and Sharon, 120–21, 122 Paglia, Camille, 15–16, 110 pantheon of the gods, 4, 6, 7, 16, 32, 95, 97, 99, 101, 104 para-religion, 5, 25, 33, 56–59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73–75, 78–88, 105, 108, 129, 131–32 para-social interactions, 25–27, 29–33, 80 para-spiritual, 81 Pitt, Brad, and Angelina Jolie, 2, 44, 88–89, 101, 115–17 Presley, Elvis, 23–24, 27, 29–32, 52–53, 65–66, 76, 90, 119 redemption, 6, 84, 87, 97, 125–26, 131 religion, 1–7, 13–25, 30–33, 51, 54–88, 97, 102–8, 129–32 representation, 5–6, 31, 35–55, 59–95, 99, 101, 104, 107–8, 129 Richard, Cliff, 24, 31, 63 Roberts, Julia, 111–12, 113 Rojek, Chris, 18–19, 26, 30, 42, 44–45, 55, 61, 124 Roof, Wade Clark, 55, 70 sacred, 1–8, 11, 13, 16, 18–25, 30, 32–33, 53–56, 62, 64–86, 90, 92, 97, 99, 104, 107–8, 111, 113, 118, 121, 129 saviors, 126–28 self, 5–8, 15...