![]() Rather, it has simply witnessed the collapse of institutional spirituality and the ascendance of an “intuitional religion” that allows the adherent to pick and choose the elements of their bespoke worldview.īurton begins her argument by discussing four niche communities that fulfill a role akin to religion in the lives of their members: fandom culture, wellness culture, Wicca and neopaganism, and kink culture. The current age, for Burton, is decidedly not secular. Strange Rites explores and analyzes seven different movements in contemporary modern American life, all of which function-at some level-as new faith systems after the decline of mainline Protestantism. And that is where Tara Isabella Burton’s new book Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless Worldcomes in. ![]() But beyond the courtroom, Smith had little to say about how this immanent sacred might appear under its cultic-that is, its more structured or ritualistic-aspects. ![]()
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