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The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust. Mark I. Pinsky. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
Mark Pinsky, who writes on religion for the Orlando Sentinel and is the author of The Gospel According to the Simpsons (2001), once again surveys the moral and ethical aspects of children's animation. This time he tackles the "wonderful world of Disney," and he offers a different thesis from his earlier work on the animated family from Springfield. Pinsky writes, "I am saying something quite different about the [Walt Disney] company's animated features: It is what you think, more or less, but here is how and why. There is a consistent set of moral values . . . based on Western, Judeo-Christian faith and religious principles, which constitute a 'Disney gospel'" (xi). This Disney gospel is reflected poignantly in seven decades of Walt Disney's work, and in Michael Eisner's recent films. Not surprisingly, this gospel portrays...