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This is the first book-length study of the Church of All Worlds (CAW) - a modern Pagan religion. Situating the Church of All Worlds within the context of the Pagan revival, the counter-culture of the 1960s, and broader contemporary environmentalist discourses (in particular), Carole Cusack offers an authoritative, evidence-based study of the church's present activities. Founded by Tim Zell (now Oberon Zell-Ravenheart) and Lance Christie in 1962, the Church of All Worlds has a disproportionate influence within the modern pagan scene due their environmental focus and particularly their attention to Gaia theology. Utilising contemporary scholarship from a variety of genres to comment on late/post-modern religious forms, this book includes the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation. While scholarship on New Religious Movements maintains a steady pace, explicitly countercultural movements remain relatively unexplored methodologically and this book offers an invaluable resource for all those interested in new/contemporary forms of religiosity and spirituality.

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Carole M. Cusack is Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. She is a trained medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). Her research and teaching interests are divided between the Middle Ages and contemporary Western alternative religions. Her most recent book is Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate 2010).

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