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Religion and popular culture : a hyper-real testament
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ISBN: 9052012725 9780820466347 0820466344 9789052012728 Year: 2005 Volume: 7 Publisher: Bruxelles PIE-Peter Lang

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Popular culture can no longer be exclusively seen as a source of escapism. It can amuse, entertain, instruct, and relax people, but what if it provides inspiration for religion ? The Church of All Worlds, the Church of Satan and Jediism from the Star Wars series are but three examples of new religious groups that have been greatly inspired by popular culture to (re)create a religious message. These are hyper-real religions, that is a simulacrum of a religion partly created out of popular culture which provides inspiration for believers/consumers. These postmodern expressions of religion are likely to be consumed and individualised, and thus have more relevance to the self than to a community and/or congregation. On the other hand, religious fundamentalist groups tend, at times, to resist this synergy between popular culture and religion, and at other times, re-appropriate popular culture to promote their own religion. Examples of this re-appropriation are Christian super-hero comics and role playing games, Bible-based PC games, and ‘White Metal' music. To explore these new phenomena, this book views itself as the ‘hyper-real testament' of these new religious phenomena by addressing the theories, among many others, of Baudrillard, Jameson and Lipovetsky, and by exploring the use of fictions such as those from Harry Potter, The Matrix, Star Trek, Buffy and The Lord of the Rings.


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Les sectes lucifériennes aujourd'hui
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ISBN: 2714411770 Year: 1978 Publisher: Paris Pierre Belfond

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Satan Wants You.The Cult of Devil Worship
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ISBN: 0246640502 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Rupert Hart-Davis

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Satanism and Demonology

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Satan Wants You.The Cult of Devil Worship in America
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ISBN: 0445408227 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York The Mysterious Press

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The Devil's Party.Satanism in Modernity
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ISBN: 9780199779239 9780199779246 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford / New York Oxford University Press, Inc.


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New age, neopagan, and new religious movements : alternative spirituality in contemporary America
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ISBN: 0520962125 9780520962125 9780520281172 0520281179 9780520281189 0520281187 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group, providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study of religion and American culture. Urban addresses such questions as, Why has there been such a tremendous proliferation of new spiritual forms in the past 150 years, even as our society has become increasingly rational, scientific, technological, and secular? Why has the United States become the heartland for the explosion of new religious movements? How do we deal with complex legal debates, such as the use of peyote by the Native American Church or the practice of plural marriage by some Mormon communities? And how do we navigate issues of religious freedom and privacy in an age of religious violence, terrorism, and government surveillance?

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Cults --- Sects --- Occultism --- United States --- Native American Church of North America --- Mormon Church --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- Branch Davidians --- Witchcraft --- Neopaganism --- Peoples Temple --- Scientology --- Ras Tafari movement --- Satanism --- Hare Krishnas --- Raà«lians --- Cults -- United States.. --- Occultism -- United States.. --- Sects -- United States. --- american culture. --- american religions. --- american spirituality. --- comparative religion. --- cult leaders. --- cults and religions. --- cults. --- emerging religions. --- flds. --- islam. --- latter day saints. --- lds. --- mormon fundamentalists. --- mormonism. --- native american church. --- neopagan movements. --- neopagan. --- new age movements. --- new age. --- new american religions. --- new religions. --- new religious movements. --- new spiritual movements. --- new theology. --- occultism. --- rastafari. --- religious freedom. --- religious studies. --- scientology. --- separation of church and state. --- wicca. --- world religions. --- new religions in modern America --- the Native American Church --- Mormonism --- plural marriage --- the LDS --- the FLDS --- Spiritualism --- women --- mediums --- messages from other worlds --- the Nation of Islam --- the Five Percenters --- race --- religion --- hip-hop --- Rastafari --- Messianism --- music --- ganja --- the Church of Scientology --- new religions and tax exemption --- Wicca and Neopaganism --- magic --- feminism --- environmentalism --- the Church of Satan --- the Temple of Set --- religious parody --- Satanic panic --- ISKCON --- Hare Krishna --- Eastern religions in America --- brainwashing --- Channeling --- the New Age --- alternative spirituality --- popular culture --- media --- mass murder-suicide --- the Branch Davidians --- religious freedom --- privacy --- the Raëlians --- UFOs --- human cloning --- the study of new religions --- Millenarian movements

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