Ellen Bernhard is an assistant professor of communication at Georgian Court University, USA. Her research focuses on contemporary punk rock communities and their relationships with popular culture. She is also interested in the rhetorical considerations of humour and satire in punk.Paul Fields is an Associate Professor of Popular Music at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. He focuses his sociological research on the intersection of punk with humour, transgression, and social justice politics.

• Introduction: This is Just a Punk Rock Introduction: Bad Religion’s Punk Philosophies, Politics & Pedagogies Ellen Bernhard & Paul Fields 1. Chomskyan Punk? On Bad Religion, Noam Chomsky and Politico-Artistic Juxtaposition as Dissensus and FictionCath Marceau2. From Hell to the End of History: The Lyrical Evolution of Bad Religion Robert Fitzgerald3. ‘One Step Closer to the Future, One Inch Closer to the End’: An Examination of Progress in the Lyrics of Bad Religion Lance Mason & Adam Patyk4. From Anthemic Certitude to Philosophical Contemplation: Bad Religion’s Transformation of Hardcore Punk Style David Pearson5. Bad Religion’s Mimetic Personae: A Modest Proposal for the Modern Day Ellen Bernhard6. Remaining Determined to Be Opposed: Bad Religion’s Relationship to the ‘New Atheism’ Movement Paul Fields7. A Short History of Decay: Bad Religion’s Critique on Late Modern Capitalism Filippos Kourakis8. ‘When Bombs Start Flashing’: Bad Religion’s Nuclear Poetics and Politics Jessica A. Schwartz9. From Anarchy to Intellect: An Examination of Bad Religion’s Intellectualism Eric Hunting10. ‘Dictionaries are Not Necessary’: The Transcendence of Bad Religion Texts, Music and Aesthetics in IndonesiaFaris Rahmadian11. Mapping Emotions in Bad Religion’s Music: Insights from Qualitative and Automatic Sentiment AnalysisCatherine Bouko & Luna De Bruyne12. American Jesus: Fuck Yeah Steve Andresen Notes on ContributorsIndex

Ellen Bernhard is an assistant professor of communication at Georgian Court University, USA. Her research focuses on contemporary punk rock communities and their relationships with popular culture. She is also interested in the rhetorical considerations of humour and satire in punk.Paul Fields is an Associate Professor of Popular Music at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. He focuses his sociological research on the intersection of punk with humour, transgression, and social justice politics.

• Introduction: This is Just a Punk Rock Introduction: Bad Religion’s Punk Philosophies, Politics & Pedagogies Ellen Bernhard & Paul Fields 1. Chomskyan Punk? On Bad Religion, Noam Chomsky and Politico-Artistic Juxtaposition as Dissensus and FictionCath Marceau2. From Hell to the End of History: The Lyrical Evolution of Bad Religion Robert Fitzgerald3. ‘One Step Closer to the Future, One Inch Closer to the End’: An Examination of Progress in the Lyrics of Bad Religion Lance Mason & Adam Patyk4. From Anthemic Certitude to Philosophical Contemplation: Bad Religion’s Transformation of Hardcore Punk Style David Pearson5. Bad Religion’s Mimetic Personae: A Modest Proposal for the Modern Day Ellen Bernhard6. Remaining Determined to Be Opposed: Bad Religion’s Relationship to the ‘New Atheism’ Movement Paul Fields7. A Short History of Decay: Bad Religion’s Critique on Late Modern Capitalism Filippos Kourakis8. ‘When Bombs Start Flashing’: Bad Religion’s Nuclear Poetics and Politics Jessica A. Schwartz9. From Anarchy to Intellect: An Examination of Bad Religion’s Intellectualism Eric Hunting10. ‘Dictionaries are Not Necessary’: The Transcendence of Bad Religion Texts, Music and Aesthetics in IndonesiaFaris Rahmadian11. Mapping Emotions in Bad Religion’s Music: Insights from Qualitative and Automatic Sentiment AnalysisCatherine Bouko & Luna De Bruyne12. American Jesus: Fuck Yeah Steve Andresen Notes on ContributorsIndex