Handbook of new religions and cultural production / / edited by Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman.

• Superior document: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion, v. 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Cusack, Carole M., 1962-; Norman, Alex.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (820 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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...

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.