YouTuber The Middle Man explains the religion of Mithraism as fictionalized in the TV series Raised by Wolves. In the series, a reconstruction or revival of the ancient Roman mystery cult of Mithraism quickly gains religious (and then political and military) hegemony during the 22nd century, due largely to its use of a new technology … Read moreThe Mithraic Religion in “Raised by Wolves”
Moderator Aaron Grizzell (MA, executive director, Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation) leads a discussion on the relationships between Afrofuturism and Black religion with panelists John Jennings (MFA: professor of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside 2-time Eisner Award winner (2016, 2018), Kinitra D. Brooks (PhD: Leslie Endowed Chair of Literary Studies, … Read more“Afro-Futurism and Black Religion: Connecting Imaginations” (Comic-Con 2020)
In this 2018 report, Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves observes that: I think if most Christians are honest about it, I think they’ll admit that they’re just pretty much picking and choosing what they will believe and what they won’t. I think that the more people become comfortable culturally identifying with their religions and realizing … Read more“The Satanic Temple’s Protest for First Amendment Rights”
Artist/scholar/witchdoctor M. Dudeck offers a concise precis of his massive RELIGIONVIR.US project, a queer science fiction religion. In this video montage, Dudeck and his collaborators enact aspects of PSALMS: a 45-minute music-centered performance featuring 13 invented psalms accompanied by a complex digital soundscore and projected video.
The Cultpunk force is strong in this song by the Swedish band Fever Ray.
Author and countercultural religious studies scholar Erik Davis speaks on one of his pet topics, the occult revivals of the 1970s. See Techgnosis.com for much more of his work, including the always interesting, often fascinating Expanding Mind podcast.
A trailer for the 2017 documentary American Jedi, which is available to stream via various platforms. Here’s an in-depth interview with Jedi Knight and Deacon Alex Bird, explaining his devotion to the philosophy/quasi-religion of Jediism: But your myth doesn’t reach back to any time that’s actually real. That’s true. I mean that it has to speak … Read more“American Jedi”
A ’90s-vintage documentary on the Radical Faeries, a queer spiritual counterculture dating back to 1978-9.
The School of Life offers insight into the history, meaning and value of ceremonialism, concluding that a sane and kind future will require the creation of new rituals.