Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith
| By: | Cusack, Carole M, Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754667803 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409481034 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, 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 SubGenius, 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