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RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE - ADAM POSSAMAI KA...

Popular culture can no longer be exclusively seen as a source of escapism. It can amuse 
entertain  instruct  and relax people  but what if it provides inspiration for religion? The
Church of All Worlds  the Church of Satan and Jediism from the Star Wars series are but three
examples of new religious groups that have been greatly inspired by popular culture to
(re)create a religious message. These are hyper-real religions  that is a simulacrum of a
religion partly created out of popular culture which provides inspiration for believers
consumers. These postmodern expressions of religion are likely to be consumed and
individualised  and thus have more relevance to the self than to a community and or
congregation. On the other hand  religious fundamentalist groups tend  at times  to resist this
synergy between popular culture and religion  and at other times  re-appropriate popular
culture to promote their own religion. Examples of this re-appropriation are Christian
super-hero comics and role playing games  Bible-based PC games  and 'White Metal' music. To
explore these new phenomena  this book views itself as the 'hyper-real testament' of these new
religious phenomena by addressing the theories  among many others  of Baudrillard  Jameson and
Lipovetsky  and by exploring the use of fictions such as those from Harry Potter   The Matrix 
Star Trek   Buffy and The Lord of the Rings .

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