Buffy Scholar/Critic | Watcher Junior Board Member
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Patton, L. C. “Horror, Hope and Heroes: Practical Theology in BtVS.” Paper given at Blood, Text, and Fears Conference, University of East Anglia, October 2003.
___. "Popular Culture as Practical Theology." Presentation given to Society for Pastoral Theology annual conference, Denver, CO, June 1999.
___. "What Else Are we Gonna Do?" Finding "The Courage to Be" with Angel and Buffy (paper to be presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
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Lori
C. Patton is a doctoral candidate in Religion and Personality at
Vanderbilt University, with minor studies in Anthropology. Her dissertation
topic is an expanded version of the 'Blood, Text and Fears' paper she presented in 2003, and she is currently an adjunct professor in the School of
Religion at Belmont University. Lori's interest in theology and popular culture go back to her M.Div. studies at Princeton Seminary (where she tried
to get theology credit for reading 'Star Trek' novels), and she has been writing and teaching on BtVS as practical theology since 1999. Her non-BtVS
conference papers include "Working Out Your Own Salvation with 'Xena: Warrior
Princess' (Or, The Renewing of Ego Ideals in Syndication)" in 1998 and "Girls,
Gods, and Monsters: Healing from the Margins in the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki"
in 2002, both given at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.