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008			151216 2010 eng
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092			_a306.60904 _bCUS
100			_aCusack, Carole M.
245			_aInvented Religions _bImagination, Fiction and Faith
260			_aSurrey _bAshgate Publishing Limited _c2010
300			_aviii, 179 _c22 cm
440			_aAshgate new religions
520			_aUtilising 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.
650			_aCults -- 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.
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998			_a _cbat _e20151216 _mcat _u20200731
999			_c3080 _d3080