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Fantasy and Belief - Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives, and Digital Cultures (Hardcover)
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Fantasy and Belief - Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives, and Digital Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Approaches to New Religions
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An exploration of the culture of those who believe they are only
partly human... "Fantasy and Belief takes the reader on an engaging
journey into an under-researched corner of our haunted culture, a
corner inhabited by the Otherkin. Along the way it explores several
important trajectories for the study of the sacred and popular
culture in the modern world. It should have broad appeal both
inside and outside the academic community." - Christopher
Partridge, Lancaster University Religion and spirituality are being
transformed in our late modern and secularising times. New forms of
belief proliferate, often notable for not being limited to
traditional systems of reference or expression. Increasingly, these
new religions present worldviews which draw directly upon popular
culture - or occulture - in fiction, film, art and the internet.
Fantasy and Belief explores the context and implications of these
types of beliefs through the example of the Otherkin community. The
Otherkin are a loosely-affiliated group who believe themselves to
be in some way more than just human, their non-humanity often
rooted in the characters and narratives of popular fantasy and
science fiction. Challenging much current sociological thinking
about spirituality and consumption, Fantasy and Belief reveals how
popular occulture operates to recycle, develop, and disseminate
metaphysical ideas, and how the popular and the sacred are
combining in new ways in today's world.
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