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  • Sacred Suicide

    by Carole M. Cusack ...
    Series series Routledge New Religions
    The label 'Suicide Cults' has been applied to a wide variety of different alternative religions, from Jonestown to the Solar Temple to Heaven's Gate. Additionally, observers have asked if such group suicides are in any way comparable to Islamist suicide terrorism, or to historical incidents of mass suicide, such as the mass suicide of the ancient community of Masada. Organizationally and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Invented Religions

    Imagination, Fiction and Faith

    by Carole M. Cusack ...
    Series series Routledge New Religions
    Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Religion and Media

    Edited by Danielle L. Kirby, Carole M. Cusack ...
    Series series Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
    Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the variety of ways in which religion and media impact, facilitate, and imbricate with each other.The field ... Read more

    $577.16 CAD

  • Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World

    by Bernard Mees, Meredith Cutrer, Penny Nash, Constant Mews, Stephen Joyce, Roxanne Bodsworth, Cynthia Neville, Carole Cusack, Tomás Ó Carragáin ...
    Series series Sydney Series in Celtic Studies
    Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies on Celtic inscriptions, religious travel, settlement, penance and prophecy in medieval Celtic nations. The contributors explore the themes of memory, fate and prophecy to capture the worldview of early Celtic speaking nations and challenge the reader to consider what connections can be drawn ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $15.99 CAD

  • Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality

    From popular culture to religion

    Edited by Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč ...
    Series series Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
    The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new religions including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Church of Scientology, and the Children of God. New religions were regarded with suspicion by society in general and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Problem of Invented Religions

    Edited by Steven J. Sutcliffe, Carole M Cusack ...
    Invented religions have been described as modern religions which advertise their invented status and reject traditional strategies of authorisation. But what does it mean for a religious formation to be ‘made up’, and how might this status affect perceptions of its legitimacy or authenticity in wider society?Based in original fieldwork and archival sources, and in the secondary literature on ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom

    Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture

    Edited by John W. Morehead, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, Carole M. Cusack ...
    To the casual observer, similarities between fan communities and religious believers are difficult to find. Religion is traditional, institutional, and serious; whereas fandom is contemporary, individualistic, and fun. Can the robes of nuns and priests be compared to cosplay outfits of Jedi Knights and anime characters? Can travelling to fan conventions be understood as pilgrimages to the shrines ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Asylum

    by Ann Cusack, Carol Minto, Joe Cusack ...
    Narrated by Fiona McNeill ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets.Born into poverty and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings. But when she was just 11 years old, her older brother began to sexually abuse her. After four years, Carol managed to escape – and ran away from home.Picked up by social services they ... Read more

    $19.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enjoying Religion

    Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements

    by Frans Jespers, Karin van Nieuwkerk, François Gauthier, Lisbeth Mikaelsson, Catrien Notermans, Jean-Pierre Wils, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, James S. Bielo, Carole M. Cusack0, Dr. Paul van der Velde1 ...
    “Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume concludes that in our late modern secular societies the enjoyment of religion or of its loose elements ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • The Lyre of Orpheus

    Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane

    by Christopher Partridge ...
    The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • After World Religions

    Reconstructing Religious Studies

    by Christopher R Cotter, David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
    The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Religion Online

    Finding Faith on the Internet

    Edited by Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan ...
    Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD