Description: This book brings together scholarly treatments of cutting edge religious and spiritual trends, with contributions by representatives of Dudeism, the Church of All Worlds, the Temple of the Jedi Order, and Tolkien spirituality groups.
Review Quotes:
"This book's goal is to serve as an introductory text on a variety of new religions and spiritualities, their worldview, and the complexity of their ongoing fight for legitimacy. The contributors to Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality successfully demonstrate that these "phenomena have real life consequences.""
- Tarryl Janik, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"This volume takes readers on a truly marvelous journey. Insightful and a pleasure to read."
- Lukas Pokorny, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review