Moriah Reichert and Steve Selka co-organized a panel titled “‘Hey JC, JC: You’re alright by me”: Jesus Christ Superstar at 50’ for the American Academy of Religion Annual Meetings in San Antonio. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the film Jesus Christ Superstar, the panel explored how the production of the JCS film fits into the ever-evolving relationship between the religious and the popular, specifically Christianity’s relationship to popular commercial culture in the twentieth century US. The papers explored questions that included: What does the important moment of intersection between religion and popular culture that JCS represents look like in retrospect? How have those lines shifted, blurred, or re-entrenched since?
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