author: douglas e cowan

Cults and New Religions: A Brief History

... Witch : Wicca for a New Generation . St Paul , MN : Llewellyn Publications . Raven Wolf , Silver ( 2003 ) . Solitary Witch : The Ultimate Book of Shadows for a New Generation . St Paul , MN : Llewellyn Publications . Reavis , Dick J ...

The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination

... Milo Manara, Ignacio Noé, and Ricardo Barreiro to photographers, painters, and digital artists who contribute their work to social media sites like DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Flickr, and from Western nunsploitation cinema to the nun ...

Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet

... the Book of Shadows section is extremely large , print- ing out at more than 2,000 pages . In his FAQ , however ... online raises issues of information replication on the Web that challenge if not directly breach well - known con- cepts of ...

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

... D&D, whether streamed on the internet (CelebriD&D; Critical Role; Dice, Camera, Action), played on the main stage at major gaming conventions (Acquisitions Incorporated), or performed as audience-participation theater improv (Zombie ...

Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

... the island's inhabitants, the Carthaginians, gave the island its own deity, Tanit, a goddess representing love, death, and fertility. Nostradamus prophesied that Ibiza would be the last ... free candy. Their aim was to build relationships ...

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

... Mists of Avalon in roughly the same historical context as Fuqua's King Arthur, Bradley passionately refracts the story of the mythic hero who arises to unite the warring tribes of Britain in the face of early sixthcentury Saxon ...

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

... Titansgrave and Heroes of Awesome. Titansgrave: “Battle of the Boasts” Designed and run by actor and avid gamer Wil Wheaton, Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana is a science fantasy role-playing game streamed originally on Felicia Day's ...

The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination

... Lovecraft's 1920 short story, “The Cats of Ulthar,” as groupie clothing, it is also a reference to the house band in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows's graphic novel, Neonomicon. Also, see Lovecraft, “Cool Air,” “The Cats of Ulthar ...

Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet

... Internet bat- tles to ... read verbatim from a master text , and neither in- novation nor deviation is ... online mis- sion statement ( 2003a ) , “ view the maintenance and incorruptibility of their religious technology - in precise accordance ...

Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

... surfer stumbling across one of the pages . Similarly , these pages are often ... books , tapes , and other paraphernalia . In fairness , most of the liter ... Soul of Cyberspace manage to combine all three points of view . Heavy users ...

Cults and New Religions: A Brief History

... Books. Mayer, Jean‐François (1999). “'Our Terrestrial Journey is Coming to ... Books. Melton, J. Gordon (2003). “A Contemporary Ordered Religious Community: The ... Miscavige‐Hill, Jenna, and Lisa Pulitzer (2013). Beyond Belief: My Secret ...

America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King

... Pet Sematary, 165. King, Pet Sematary, 165. King, Pet Sematary, 165. King, Pet Sematary, 166. King, Pet Sematary, 166. King, Pet Sematary, 166. Richard Matheson, in Winter, Faces of Fear, 32. For the classic statements on this, see ...

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