Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith

By Carole M. Cusack

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032099364
• ISBN13: 9781032099361
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"