Description: Fantasy and Belief explores the context and implications of new forms of belief which draw upon popular culture through the example of the Otherkin community.
Review Quotes: "Kirby offers a sympathetic treatment, taking this community at face value and seeking to understand rather than to criticize it. The book includes a useful overview of related phenomena/trends such as the occult, witchcraft, paganism, magic, and New Age understandings of the world. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- Choice "Fantasy and Belief makes provocative points that should influence how we think about religion and religion-like groups and movements in the contemporary world...The investigation of contemporary and virtual religions has the potential to revolutionize how social scientists think about religion." Anthropology Review Database