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Article: What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide .(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Riess, Jana. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. xviii + 183 pp., $14.95 (USD). ISBN: 0-7879-6922-2 (paper).
[1] No one would be surprised to hear that a television show like Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a strong cult following. Some might be surprised, however, to find out just how many academics are members of this particular cult--confirmed by even a cursory glance at the contents of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. Jana Riess is herself a scholar of religion, and so she brings her knowledge of various religious traditions to bear on seven seasons' worth of happenings in the Buffyverse, with an occasional reference to the ...