Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
 “Build a House to My Name”: The Idea of the Temple in Mormon History
 Mormon Science Fiction: Tales of Interstellar Exodus and Perfection
 Knock Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Humour and Religion in Mormon Comedy
Part Two The Theosophical Society
 Producing Lost Civilisations: Theosophical Concepts in LiteratureVisual Media and Popular Culture
 The Agency of the Object: Leadbeater and the Pectoral Cross
 Theosophical Bodies: Colour, Shape and Emotion from Modern Aesthetics to Healing Therapies
Part Three Anthroposophy
 “And the Building Becomes Man”: Meaning and Aesthetics in Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum
 The Anthroposophical Movement and the Waldorf Educational System
 Cosmic Flavour Spiritual Nutrition?: The Biodynamic Agricultural Method and the Legacy of Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy in Viticulture
Part Four The Gurdjieff Work
 Gurdjieff and the Legomonism of ‘Objective Reason’
 G. I. Gurdjieff’s Piano Music and its Application In and Outside ‘the Work’
 Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances and Movements
 From Ouspensky’s ‘Hobby’ to Groundhog Day: The Production and Adaptation of Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
Part Five Modern Paganism
 Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia
 Bardic Chairs and the Emergent Performance Practices of Paganism
 Part Six Afro-Caribbean New Religions
 ‘When the Gods give us the Power of Ashe’: Caribbean Religions as the Source for Creative Energy
 Candomblé and the Brazilians: The Impact of Art on a Religion’s Success StoryIdentity Subversion and Reconstruction ‘Riddims’: Reggae as Cultural Expressions of Rastafarian Theology
Part Seven New Religious Techniques And Technologies
 Dancing at the Crossroads of Consciousness: Techno-Mysticism, Visionary Arts and Portugal’s Boom Festival
 Metal and Magic: The Intricate Relation Between the Metal Band Therion and the Magic Order Dragon Rouge
 Battlefield Earth and Scientology: A Cultural/Religious Industry à la Frankfurt School?
Part Eight New Universal Religions
 The Bahá’í House of Worship: Localisation and Universal Form
 Constructing the Cornucopia That Is Caodaism: Themes of Cultural Production in an Increasingly Acephalous Milieu
 The Cultural Products of Global Sufism
 Food Practices Cultureffshoots
 The Manifestation of Queer Theology: The Act of “Promulgating Universal Joy and Expiating Stigmatic Guilt” Through the (Re)Inscription of Rituals, Artefacts, Devotional Practices and Place
 Visualizing the Lost Temple and Mapping a Straightening World in Solomon Islands: Two Cultural Products of the Deep Sea Canoe Movement
 Visible Religion Visible Spirituality: Boundary Management and the Life of Images
Index