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Invented religions : imagination, fiction, faith

Print Book, English, ©2010
Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England, ©2010
History
viii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780754667803, 9780754693604, 0754667804, 0754693600
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The contemporary context of invented religions
Discordianism : chaos is a goddess
The Church of All Worlds : science fiction, environmentalism, and a holistic pagan vision
The Church of the SubGenius : science fiction mythos, culture jamming, and the sacredness of slack
Third millennium invented religions : Jediism, Matrixism, and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Conclusion: imagination, fiction, and faith revisited