Pop Culture

Recent Student Websites

Browse through these student-created Religion and Pop Culture sites from the past few years!

Note - these sites are not maintained, some of the links may be broken

Carrie Underwood: For or Against Christianity? Chicago's Angel: Chance the Rapper Christian Memes: Dank or Cringeworthy? Christian Themes in the Works of Kendrick Lamar Christian Themes in Star Wars Christianity and Hip Hop Music Christianity in Stranger Things Christianity and The Lion King Critiques of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia Disney's The Lion King and Religion Dungeons, Dragons, and Divinity: D&D as a Cultural Utopia Ellen DeGeneres: Pop Culture and Religion Family Guy and Religion Florida Georgia Line and Religion Gender in the World of Narnia Hellboy: The Savior of Christianity Is Neo a Christ-like Figure? Kanye West and Religion Kendrick Lamar:Exploring Religion and Spirituality through Rap Mary Poppins as the Triple Goddess Moana and Nature Spirituality Mother! Politics and Morality: An Exploration of Religion in A Song of Ice and Fire 19 Kids and Counting: Religion and Reality Television Religion and Disney's Brave Religion and Reality TV: Sister Wives Religion and Ritual in the Bachelor Franchise Religion in Ender's Game Religion in Jane the Virgin Religion in Tangled Religion in Twin Peaks Religion is the New Black Religion n' Blues Religion Portrayed in Anime Religious Depiction in Video Games Religious Thrones Spirituality in The Legend of Zelda Studio Ghibli Superman: Man of Faith The 5% Nation The Lion King and Christianity The Little Mermaid: Atlantica or Eden? The Little Prince: A Biblical Tale? The Meme-ing of Religion The Relationship between Sports and Religion Tradition in Riverdale U2 and Christianity Welcome to Hogwarts
Albus Dumbledore and the Christian Parallels
A Link through Time: The History of Westeros Faith
And the Savior declared: "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" – Friday Night Lights
Apocalypse: The End of the World in Popular Culture
"Are you a God-fearing man, Senator?"
A Christian Middle Earth
A Look at Religion of One Tree Hill
A Musical Phenomenon's Religious Side: Religion in Glee
A Saturday Sermon? Hockey Night in Canada
A Spiritual Icon: Oprah
Admiring Snape
Andy Warhol
Anime and Religion
Apocalypse in Hollywood
Apple and its Religious Implications
Avatar And The Connection To Hinduism
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Beauty and Religion
Belief and Gaiman
Beyonce to Sasha: Symbolic Rebirth
Bloodsuckers and Religion: The Good and the Bad
Broadway and Religion
Buddhism in Stargate
Bushido & The Last Samurai
Capital H.I.M – Lady Gaga & the Role Religion plays in her Music
Carlinism
Charles Bronson and the 9 Commandments
Charmed
Charmed Culture
Christ and Sacrifice in Disney films
Christ vs Sponge
Christian Metal
Christian Themes and Symbolism in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings
Christian theology in Frozen
Christianity in Angel
Christianity within the Harry Potter Universe
Christianity and The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe
Clergy TV
Connections with Christianity in The Walking Dead
Country Music ... Heartbreak or Hallelujah?
Criminal Minds and Religion
Dave Matthews and Religion
Digital Religion: Faith in/and Video Games
Dissecting the Religion in Grey’s Anatomy
Disney's The Lion King
Disney’s The Lion King’s Characters and Religion
Doctor Who Analysis
Doctor Who? /and Religion
Dogma in “Dogma”?
Donnie Darko: the Return of the Messiah or a Portrayal of the End Times?
Dr. Who, Life and Death
Dracula and Christianity
Duck Dynasty and Religion
Dungeons and Dragons as Satanic Media
Eastern Religions in Avatar: The Last Airbender & The Legend of Korra
Edward Scissorhands: A Lack of Hands
Elvis a Religion?
Ender’s Game
Evolution of Dexter
Exploring X-Men and Judaism
Faith, Death and Country Music
Folk Singers as Prophets
Fox News and Christianity
Friday Night Lights
Gaga for Religion
Game of Thrones
Glee and Religion
Glee and Religion
Glee Club... God's Chosen People? Glee's Connection to Religion
Glee Lovers and Haters
God in Dogma
God, Dinosaurs and Punk Rock
God, the Devil and Mac: Christianity in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Good and Evil in Harry Potter, or, the Christian Guide to becoming a Harry and not a Voldemort
Grimm Scriptures
Happy Feet: More Than Just Adorable Penguins?
Harry Potter and religion
Harry Potter and Religious Conflict
He Lives in You: The Lion King and Religion
Hockey as a Religion
House
Islam in Popular Culture (Comedy in “Little Mosque on the Prairie”: Enlightening or Insulting?)
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It’s Christianity!
Jesus Walks: Rap and Religion
Jesus Walks: The role of Religion in Rap Music
Jesus Who? Oh, Dr. Christ
Kanye West and Rap Religion
Katy Perry & Religion
Keep the Faith
Kindness, Courage, and a Little Magic: Christianity in Cinderella
Knights of Old and New: The Jedi
Lady Gaga: Popular Culture and Religious Views
Les Misérables: A Christian Film?
Life in Plastic: Barbie and the Conservative Christian Community
Life of Pi: Signaling Religion as the “better story”?
Lions and Tigers and Vampires, Oh My!
LOST & Religion
Love & Sacrifice in Harry Potter
Luke as the Messiah: The Cinematic Jesus in Stuart Rosenberg's "Cool Hand Luke"
Madonna and Religion
Madonna: Ray of Light
Magical Messiah: An In-depth Look at the Parallels between J.K. Rowlings’s Harry Potter and Jesus Christ
Marriage and Religion in Gossip Girl
Messiah or Madman? One profitable prophet
Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Religious Action
Mitisyahu: Gift of God
Monty Python and Religion
Myth and Religion in The King Killer Chronicles
Nephilim’s Clave
No Church in the Wild: Kanye West, J.Z and Modern Religion
Occult Symbolism and Pop Music Videos
Okay? Okay. The Fault in Our Stars and Religion
Once Upon a Religion
Once Upon a Time
One Tree Hill and Religion
Oprah as a Religion
Portrayals of Christian Doctrine and Philosophy in Supernatural
Praise Be to… Castiel?
Property of Jesus: Spiritual themes in the work of Bob Dylan
Pulp Fiction: Religion and Bloody Redemption
Religion & Glee
Religion & Pulp Fiction
Religion and Business
Religion and Carnivale
Religion and Criminal Minds
Religion and Fashion: Chrisitanity Hits The Catwalk
Religion and Friday Night Lights
Religion and Grey’s Anatomy
Religion and HBO’s TrueBlood
Religion and Magic in Westeros and Essos
Religion and One Tree Hill
Religion and Social Media
Religion and The Hunger Games
Religion and the Kardashians
Religion and the OC
Religion and The Sopranos
Religion and TV
Religion and TV
Religion as Fashion
Religion as Fashion
Religion in Comics
Religion Found in Criminal Minds
Religion in Battlestar Galactica
Religion in Charlaine Harris' Bon Temps
Religion in Disney's The Lion King
Religion in Game of Thrones
Religion in Ghibli
Religion in Glee: The Glee of Religion
Religion in Guys and Dolls
Religion in Heroes: Jesus as a teenage Girl
Religion in Hip-Hop & Rap
Religion in Les Mis
Religion in Music
Religion in Nip/Tuck
Religion in Once Upon a Time…
Religion in Orange is the New Black
Religion in Popular Music: The Sacred and the Sacrilegious
Religion in Seinfeld
Religion in South Park
Religion in Springfield
Religion in The Avengers
Religion in the Light Zone
Religion in The Lord of the Rings
Religion in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Religion in the National Football League
Religion in the O.C.
Religion in the Streets: Bumper Stickers & Religious Affiliation
Religion in The Walking Dead
Religion in True Blood: The Whore in the House of God.
Religion in TrueBlood
Religion within Glee
Religion: The Musical
Religious or Atheist? The Truman Show
Religious Elements in Sailor Moon
Religious Subtleties in Disney’s The Lion King
Religious Symbolism in Once Upon a Time
Religious Themes in Christmas Specials
Religious themes in Divergent
Religious Themes in Dr. Who
Religious Themes in Keeping Faith
Religious Themes in Rap Music
Religious Themes in The Book of Eli
Religious Themes in The Vampire Diaries
Religious Themes presented in Game of Thrones
RENT and Religion
Researching Religion in 30 Rock
Rihanna and Religion
Rihanna: Devil Worshipper?
Robocop: Crucifixion, Resurrection and Redemption
Scientology in Pop Culture
Secular Pilgrimage and FANtastic Communities
‘Seek ye the living among the dead’: The Walking Dead and Christianity
Seinfeld and Religion
Seinfeld and Religion: Yada, yada, yada
Singing about, for and to God in the Mainstream Music World
Snape as Savior
Song of Ice and Fire: Religion in Westeros
Spiderman and Jesus
Spirituality and Glee
Supernatural Religion
Supernatural & Religion: As Seen On TV
Sympathy for the Dark Passenger: An examination of Dualism in Showtime's Dexter
Taoism in Avatar: The Last Airbender
TAXI DRIVER : God and Scorsese's Lonely Man
The Ambivalence of the Soul in Harry Potter
The Arrow: Hero or Villain
The Avengers and Religion
The Book of Aang: Religion in Avater: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra
The Boondock Saints
The Charmed Ones and Religious Shuns
The Day the Bible Stood Still
The Deadly Sins of Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
The Devil is Here
The Dresden Files
The End of Times: Religion in The End of the World Movies
The Feminist Christ: Buffy Summers and the Scoobie Disciples
The Golden Ticket to Religion: Exploring the Chocolate Factory as a Religion Factory
The Gospel According to Lost
The Gospel According to Reality TV
The "Happy Happy Happy" Church of Duck Dynasty
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Religion
The Hunger Games
The Land of Gods and Lana Del Rey
The Lion King Religion
The Lion, the Witch and Religion
The Little Mermaid
The Lorax gets Religious!
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings and Religion
The O.C. and Religion
The Old Gods and the New as Shown in the Real World
The Ones With All the Religion
The Origin of Love: Religion and Sexuality in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Perpetuation of Wiccan Stereotypes in Harry Potter
The Portrayal of Religion in The Film Ghost
The Religion of Dinosaurs
The Religion of The Lion King
The Religion of Wrestling
The Religions of Ice and Fire
The Religious Influences on RZA & the Wu-Tang Clan
The Secret Circle and Wicca: The Popularization of Witches in Western Society
The Simpsons: Religion in Springfield
The Sons of Anarchy
The Spirituality of Dragon Ball Z
The Vampire Diaries: Seven Deadly Sins
The Walking Dead: A Religious Analysis
The Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful World of Disney and Religion
These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty... Morality and Mahem in Seinfeld
This is the End: Apocalyptic Tale or Controversial Movie?
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
True Blood and Religion
True Blood: Morals or Immortals?
Twilight and the Ideology of Immortality
Voodoo in The Princess and the Frog
Westboro Baptist Media Freaks
Whale Rider
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Why Jesus Loves Harry Potter
Wicca: The Bad ‘n Ugly and the Good: The Journey of Witchcraft from Villain to Role Model in Mainstream Media
Willy Wonka’s Religion
You Could Miss Something
Zombies… Changing our Religion?

Carrie Underwood: For or Against Christianity?

Chicago's Angel: Chance the Rapper

Christian Memes: Dank or Cringeworthy?

Christian Themes in the Works of Kendrick Lamar

Christian Themes in Star Wars

Christianity and Hip Hop Music

Christianity in Stranger Things

Christianity and The Lion King

Critiques of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia

Disney's The Lion King and Religion

Dungeons, Dragons, and Divinity: D&D as a Cultural Utopia

Ellen DeGeneres: Pop Culture and Religion