“… a religion of atmosphere instead of faith, a cosmos, in a word, constructed by the imagination.”

So wrote American scholar of new religions Robert S. Elwood in 1973, describing the then-new and burgeoning religious movement known as neo-Paganism. Elwood was among the first academics to pay any serious attention to the phenomenon that it pleases us, now, to refer to as Cultpunk, or (less edgily, more splendidly) as Poetic Faith; the … Read more“… a religion of atmosphere instead of faith, a cosmos, in a word, constructed by the imagination.”