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Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith

Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith

Cusack, Carole M.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge New Religions

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 0754667804
ISBN13: 9780754667803
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 20 2010
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Utilising contemporary scholarship on secularisation, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the Sub-Genius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the Sub-Genius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.

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