Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer
capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are …

In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and
science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities …

Often fiction and religion have been seen as separate moments or genres, but recent
encounters between the two fields–such as fiction-based religions or religious controversies …

This article discusses the reasons for the religious reactions to the Harry Potter novels,
arguing that the books contribute to, and reflect, the reconfiguration of religion in …

Research into religions founded upon explicitly fictional sources is a recent development in
the study of religion. Such research is social scientific in orientation and emphasises: the …

The Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures focuses on the
broader aspects of philosophy and traditional intellectual patterns of religion and cultures …

Media—understood in a broad sense—play important roles in forms of emotional and
sensory practice. Understanding religion as a multi-facetted cultural phenomenon, which …

The 1983 publication of Eric J. Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger's The Invention of Tradition,
an influential edited volume that used rigorous historical research to deconstruct much-loved …

This essay examines pantheism within the framework of the 'faith and reason'field in the
philosophy of religion, with an emphasis on the question of the relationship between …

In the annals of fiction-based religions, the Church of All Worlds occupies a historic position
as a successful and influential nrm that was initially based on a novel, and which during its …