{"id":231,"date":"2004-07-28T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2004-07-28T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T03:35:00","slug":"231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffy as spiritual director<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book<\/a> had to happen: the only part that surprises me is that I had an image of Jossey-Bass as a fairly staid publisher, based on their display at AAR-SBL meetings.<\/p>\n

It started out as a joke.<\/p>\n

Two academic women were laughing over the absurdity of writing a book about the spirituality of the teen TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in May 2002. But by fall of that year, Jana Riess, religion book review editor at Publishers Weekly, was writing a book proposal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> from Religion News Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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