Academic Writing
- Breaking the Consumerist Trance: The Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. Jane Hindley. Capitalism Nature Socialism [Read paper in full]
- Theater in a Crowded Fire. Lee Gilmore. UC Northridge.
- The Downtown Gospel According to Reverend Billy. Theater Magazine. Edited by Erika Monk, article by Jonathan Kalb [Read paper in full]
- Reverend Billy. Preaching, Protest, and Postindustrial Flanerie.Theater Drama Review. Ed. by Richard Schechner, article by Jill Lane [Click to download PDF]
- What Would Jesus Buy?: Rev. Billy and his "Church of Stop Shopping" preach the gospel of love, anti-consumerism, and radical neighborliness. Sojourners Magazine, feature story by Dr. Walter Brueggemann [Read paper in full]
- Reverend Billy's Unholy War. New York Theater Magazine, feature story by Jonathan Dee [Read paper in full]
- Activism Based in Embarrassment: The Anti-Consumption Spirituality of Reverend Billy. Liminalities. Article by Carmen L. McClish. [Click to download PDF]
- Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. Stephen Duncombe. NYU Press.
- Learning to survive the 'Shopocalypse': Reverend Billy's anti-consumption 'pedagogy of the unknown.' Jennifer A. Sandlin. Critical Studies in Education. [Click to download PDF]
- “Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics”: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy. Jennifer A. Sandlin & Jennifer L. Milam. [Click to download PDF]
- The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke. Nathan Schneider. Religion Dispatches
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