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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Christianity, religion, and Hollywood television production cultures -- Christianity's broad appeal in the 1990s: Touched by an angel and 7th Heaven -- Biblical miniseries in the 2010s: Mark Burnett, Roma Downey, and faithful Christian representation -- Southern realism: Christianity in Friday night lights and Rectify -- Nonwhite Christian dramas: exploration thought otherness in Jane the Virgin and Greenleaf -- Religion as unreality: fantastic TV's generic displacement of Christianity -- The biblical book of Revelation as mythology: apocalyptic TV the post-Christian end of the world and apocalyptic television -- Streaming religion: Netflix's Daredevil and Amazon's Hand of God -- Conclusion: polarized culture and dual approaches to Christianity on TV.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle -- Artistic citizenship, anatopism and the elusive public: live art in the city of Cape Town / Nomusa Makhubu -- Upsurge / Sarah Nuttall -- "Madam, I can see your penis": disruption and dissonance in the work of Steven Cohen / Catherine Boulle -- The impossibility of curating live art / Jay Pather -- Corporeal HerStories: navigating meaning in Chuma Sopotela's Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the artist's words / Kieketso Dee Mohoto-wa Thaluki -- "A different kind of inhabitance": invocation and the politics of mourning in performance work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama / Gabrielle Goliath -- State of emergency: inkulumo-mpendulwano (dialogue) of emergent art when ukukhulama (talking) is not enough / Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga -- Space is the place and place is time: refiguring the Black female body as a political site in performance / Same Mdluli -- Don't get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture / Bettina Malcomess -- Performing the queer archive: strategies of self-styling on Instagram / Katlego Disemelo -- Effigy in the archive: ritualising performance and the dead in contemporary South African live art practice / Alan Parker -- To heal a nation: performance and memorialisation in the zone of non-being / Khwezi Gule -- Astronautus Afrikanus: performing African futurism / Mwenya B. Kabwe -- "Touched by an angel" (of history) in Athi-Patra Ruga's The future white women of Azania / Andrew J. …”
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Table of Contents: “…"On Perceptual Readiness" and Our Construction of Heroic Images"Bad is Stronger than Good"; Concluding Thoughts; Note; Chapter 3 The Three Kings: Dissent and Evolving Perceptions of Heroism; Nonconformity and Dissent; Unwavering Independence and Leadership; Social Identity Theory and the Principle of Salience; Elvis Presley -- King of Rock 'n' Roll; Martin Luther King -- The Battle for Equal Rights; Muhammad Ali -- King of the World; Chapter 4 Heroic Transforming Leadership: Touching the Better Angels of Our Nature; What is Leadership?…”
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