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vi Contents Chapter Eight: Theological, Cultural, and Cinematic Issues in The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Passion of the Christ 143 Richard O’Connell Chapter Nine: Love on the Screen: Religion, Gestalt, and Emotion in Cinema 157 Jari Ristiniemi Chapter Ten: God—The Unacknowledged Spirit of Healing in Film: A Tillichian Analysis of Harold and Maude 181 Matthew Lon Weaver God in Television Chapter Eleven: On the Future Edge of Now: God in Person of Interest 201 Valerie Elverton Dixon Chapter Twelve: Easter in Margaritaville: Evolving Christology in South Park 217 Michelle J. Morris Chapter Thirteen: Montage, Metaphor, and Homage to The Twilight Zone: The Christian Performance of Belief in New Media 231 Rachel Wagner Chapter Fourteen: The Increasing Pluralism of the United States as Seen on Prime-Time Network Television in the Past 20 Years 247 Hannah Adams Ingram Chapter Fifteen: Creating God in Joan of Arcadia: A View into the Religiosity of Youth and Young Adults in America 259 Alicia Vermeer God and Music Chapter Sixteen: The Courage to Be . . . a Dirty Little Freak: Tillich, Pink, and Gaga 275 Courtney Wilder Chapter Seventeen: Reflekting on Arcade Fire: Regaining Passion through Carnival and Kierkegaard 291 T. Mark McConnell