Handbook of new religions and cultural production /

The cultural products of new religions and spiritualities are frequently ignored or dismissed within academia, often stemming from a hesitation to acknowledge these movements as genuine. This volume explores the impact of new religions upon cultural production, exemplifying the theological and spiri...

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Other Authors: Cusack, Carole M., 1962-, Norman, Alex.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 4.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Call Number: BL65.C8 H365 2012

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman
  • "Build a House to My Name": The Idea of the Temple in Mormon History /
  • Stephen D. Ricks
  • Mormon Science Fiction: Tales of Interstellar Exodus and Perfection /
  • Eric Repphun
  • Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door: Humour and Religion in Mormon Comedy /
  • Elisha McIntyre
  • Producing Lost Civilisations: Theosophical Concepts in Literature, Visual Media and Popular Culture /
  • Garry W. Trompf and Lauren Bernauer
  • The Agency of the Object: Leadbeater and the Pectoral Cross /
  • Jenny McFarlane
  • Theosophical Bodies: Colour, Shape and Emotion from Modern Aesthetics to Healing Therapies /
  • Jay Johnston
  • "And the Building Becomes Man": Meaning and Aesthetics in Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum /
  • Carole M. Cusack
  • The Anthroposophical Movement and the Waldorf Educational System /
  • Liselotte Frisk
  • Cosmic Flavour, Spiritual Nutrition?: The Biodynamic Agricultural Method and the Legacy of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy in Viticulture /
  • Alex Norman
  • Gurdjieff and the Legomonism of 'Objective Reason' /
  • Anthony Blake
  • G. I. Gurdjieff's Piano Music and its Application In and Outside 'the Work' /
  • Johanna Petsche
  • Gurdjieff's Sacred Dances and Movements /
  • Joseph Azize
  • From Ouspensky's 'Hobby' to Groundhog Day: The Production and Adaptation of Strange Life of Ivan Osokin /
  • David Pecotic
  • Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia /
  • Michael F. Strmiska
  • Bardic Chairs and the Emergent Performance Practices of Paganism /
  • Graham Harvey
  • Making the Donkey Visible: Discordianism in the Works of Robert Anton Wilson /
  • David G. Robertson
  • 'When the Gods give us the Power of Ashe': Caribbean Religions as the Source for Creative Energy /
  • Bettina E. Schmidt
  • Candomblé and the Brazilians: The Impact of Art on a Religion's Success Story /
  • Mona Suhrbier
  • Identity, Subversion, and Reconstruction 'Riddims': Reggae as Cultural Expressions of Rastafarian Theology /
  • Nathaniel Samuel Murrell and Justin Snider
  • Dancing at the Crossroads of Consciousness: Techno-Mysticism, Visionary Arts and Portugal's Boom Festival /
  • Graham St John and Chiara Baldini
  • Metal and Magic: The Intricate Relation Between the Metal Band Therion and the Magic Order Dragon Rouge /
  • Kennet Granholm
  • Battlefield Earth and Scientology: A Cultural/Religious Industry à la Frankfurt School? /
  • Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy
  • The Bahá'í House of Worship: Localisation and Universal Form /
  • Graham Hassall
  • Constructing the Cornucopia That Is Caodaism: Themes of Cultural Production in an Increasingly Acephalous Milieu /
  • Christopher Hartney
  • The Cultural Products of Global Sufism /
  • Milad Milani
  • Food Practices, Culture, and Social Dynamics in the Hare Krishna Movement /
  • Benjamin E. Zeller
  • The Manifestation of Queer Theology: The Act of "Promulgating Universal Joy and Expiating Stigmatic Guilt" Through the (Re)Inscription of Rituals, Artefacts, Devotional Practices and Place /
  • Jason Prior
  • Visualizing the Lost Temple and Mapping a Straightening World in Solomon Islands: Two Cultural Products of the Deep Sea Canoe Movement /
  • Jaap Timmer
  • Visible Religion, Visible Spirituality: Boundary Management and the Life of Images /
  • Rod Pattenden
  • Index.