Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Routledge New Religions) - Softcover

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Cusack, Carole M.

 
9781032099361: Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Routledge New Religions)

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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

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Carole M. Cusack is an Associate Professor of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. She is a medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). Her research and teaching interests are divided between the Middle Ages and contemporary Western alternative religions.

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ISBN 10:  0754667804 ISBN 13:  9780754667803
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010
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