TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cusack, Carole M.
TI  - Invented Religions : Imagination, Fiction and Faith
SN  - 9780754667803
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Surrey 
PB  - Ashgate Publishing Limited
KW  - 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
N2  - 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.
ER  -