Invented Religions Imagination, Fiction and Faith

By:

Cusack, Carole M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ashgate new religionsPublication details: Surrey Ashgate Publishing Limited 2010Description: viii, 179 22 cmISBN:

9780754667803

Subject(s):

Cults -- History -- 20th century. Religion and sociology -- History -- 20th century. Satire -- Religious aspects -- History -- 20th century. Cults -- History -- 21st century. Religion and sociology -- History -- 21st century. Satire -- Religious aspects -- History -- 21st century. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion. Cults. Religion and sociology. Satire -- Religious aspects

Summary: 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 Mo.

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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 Mo.

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