Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and FaithAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - 179 sider This volume investigates four religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the Sub-Genius, and Jediism. The book explores these groups as reactions against the religious marketplace of the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Chaos is a Goddess | 27 |
Science Fiction Environmentalism | 53 |
Science Fiction Mythos Culture | 83 |
Jediism Matrixism | 113 |
Imagination Fiction and Faith Revisited | 141 |
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Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith Ashgate new religions Controversial New Religions Series |
| Forfatter | Carole M. Cusack |
| Utgave | illustrert, nytrykk |
| Utgiver | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 |
| ISBN | 0754667804, 9780754667803 |
| Lengde | 179 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |