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Narrative and Belief - The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction (Hardcover)
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Narrative and Belief - The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and certain other works of
fantasy and science fiction have inspired some of their readers and
viewers to believe that the superhuman powers of the story-worlds,
such as Gandalf and the Force, exist also in the real world. We can
say that such fictional narratives possess 'religious affordance',
for they contain certain textual features that afford or make
possible a religious, rather than just a fictional, use of the
text. This book aims to identify those features of the text that
make it possible for a fictional narrative to inspire belief in the
supernatural beings of the story, or even to facilitate ritual
interaction with these beings. The contributions analyse the
religious affordance and actual use of a wide range of texts,
spanning from Harry Potter and Star Wars, over The Lord of the
Rings and late 19th-century Scandinavian fantasy, to the Christian
Gospels. Although we focus on the religious affordance of fictional
texts, we also spell out implications for the study of religious
narratives in general, and for the narrativist study of religion.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Religion.
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