Fake Titles, 2.0

Randall Stephens

"Counting flowers on the wall/That don't bother me at all . . . Now don't tell me I've nothing to do." I have something to do. I have to come up with another list of fake religious history book titles for the RiAH blog. Or, so I imagine I have to.

Below are some of the ones I conjured. I wanted to pepper the list with a few baroque, theory-driven texts. Others might make good trade books. And some are utterly useless, horrible.

Meth Heads and Methodists: My Journey through Missouri

Revival, Revival, My Heart's on Fire, for Revival: The Gospel According to the Oak Ridge Boys

Footprints in the Sand, Dust on the Bible: Biblical Illiteracy in the Idiocratic Age of Sentimental Religion

Canes Ecclesia: Liturgical Dogs in One Vermont Parish

America's Morbidly Obese God: Fastfood, Faith, and Girth

The Prayerful Diet: Subsisting on Mustard Seeds, Olive Oil, and Manna

Omnivorous Theologies of Transubstantiation: Substance, Presence, and Masocritical Theories of Violent Italian Religious Feasts, 1680-1681

Baptized in Fudge: Heterodoxologies at a Southern Fundamentalist Chocolate Factory

The Proof is in the Blood Pudding: Nordic Satanists in Brainerd, Minnesota

Academies of Exhibition: Phantasm, Imagination, and the White Femme Function of Exopedagogy in a Rural Baptist Church

Un-lived Religion and Livor-Mortis Southern Saints: Suicide, Hermaphroditism, and the Creation-Evolution Controversy in Texas, 1935-1937

Homer Aubrey Tomlinson: King of the World, Huckster of the Spirit

Fake Titles I'd Like to See

Randall Stephens

Sometimes I'm at a conference or hearing a lecture--time dragging on--and my mind begins to wander. Happens to everyone. As I daydream, I occasionally think of fake book titles and wonder what the content of those not-ready-for-prime-time volumes might entail. This is also just a good general way to waste time. I include here some recent ones. (This may, in fact, be one of the all-time most useless posts on RiAH. So be it.)

From Scatology to Eschatology

Seventh-day Advantageous

The Devil is in the Retails

Rentacostals and Holy Home Ownership

Jesus Christ Superstore

Why I'm Not a Nazarene

Why I'm Not a Baptist

Why I'm not a Lutheran

From Jim Crow to Jim Croce

Wiccan Awesome

Apocalypse Row!

Interstitial Trope-a-dopery and the Landscape of Rococo Marxism

The Kung-Fu Husserl

Proof Text Poker and Bible Roulette (got half of this from Peggy Bendroth)

Deliver Us from Evel Knievel