Book of the Subgenius

Author: Subgenius Foundation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439188653
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 657

Book Description
Either a hilarious parody of a religious text or an informative collection of totally real stories from a definitely real church that could be the foundation-stone of the promised kingdom of peace and harmony—the decision is yours to make. What is the Church of SubGenius? Who is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, and what kind of truths does he know? What is "Slack" and why do you need it? Will aliens truly descend upon our planet, and can you survive its destruction by becoming a member? Does The Book of SubGenius answer any of these questions? There are no straightfoward answers—you just have to read it yourself.

Three-fisted Tales of "Bob"

Author: Ivan Stang
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Invented Religions

Author: Professor Carole M Cusack
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409481034
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.

Revelation X

Author: J. R. Dobbs
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
At last, the long-awaited sequel to the underground bestseller, The Book of the SubGenius--an even more radical, more twisted, and more hilarious journey into the wild world of "Bob". With an appendix of epistles and apostles, this is the most intoxicating portrait yet of the Church of the SubGenius and its infamous leader.

High Weirdness by Mail

Author: Ivan Stang
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671642600
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Neighborworld

Author: Dave Deluca
Publisher: Subgenius Foundation, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781946529008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A bulldada science fiction novel by Lonesome Cowboy Dave DeLuca, the astounding improvisational wizard of The Church of the SubGenius radio show, The Hour of Slack. A little bit A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, a taste of The Firesign Theatre, a dab of Fletcher Brothers cartoons, a dash of Kafka, a splash of Fellini, and a whole fistful of Lonesome Cowboy Dave! It's about twenty years into the future and the lines between television, the Internet and the real world have not merely blurred, they've disappeared. Stan Mozuck is an Advo, part content provider and part detective, with a daunting new assignment: to uncover and report on a mysterious group called the Weirds. These grotesque characters seem to live completely off the grid, yet have extraordinary powers to manipulate and twist not only the social media net but reality itself. Stan's head is already pretty twisted, but when the Weirds climb into it they steer him into a collision course with himself.

INWO Subgenius

Author: Steve Jackson
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781556343384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Enjoying Religion

Author: Frans Jespers
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498555020
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume concludes that in our late modern secular societies the enjoyment of religion or of its loose elements is growing. In particular when scholars concentrate on “lived religion” of ordinary people, the cheerful experiences appear to prevail. Many people use pleasant (elements of) religion to add meaning to their lives, to find spiritual fulfillment or a way to salvation, and to experience belonging to a larger unity. At the same time, diverse cultural dynamics of late modern society such as popular culture, commercialization, re-enchantment, and feminization influence this trend of enjoying religion. In spite of secularization, playing with religion appears to be attractive.

Horizontal Collaboration

Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781627310178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Mel Gordon's companion volume to his highly praised pictorial history Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.

Meat Warp

Author: Jim Blanchard
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683961625
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
ATTENTION ALL MUTANTS! Your prayers have been answered! Come hither and witness the unholy union of professional sicks, Chris Kegel and Jim Blanchard. Sit back and digest the obsessively detailed, psychedelically twisted, and elegantly repulsive comics that comprise the corpus known as Meat Warp.