The Indigo Child concept is a contemporary New Age redefinition of self. Indigo Children are described in their primary literature as a spiritually, psychically, and genetically advanced generation. Born from the early 1980s, the Indigo Children are thought to be here to usher in a new golden age by changing the world’s current social paradigm. However, as they are "paradigm busters", they also claim to find it difficult to fit into contemporary society. Indigo Children recount difficult c...

Der erste Band in der gleichnamigen Reihe "Künstliche Religion" versammelt religionswissenschaftliche Studien im konzeptionellen Spannungsfeld von "Medien - Praktiken - Materialitäten". Die Beiträge befassen sich mit so verschiedenen Phänomenen wie afrikanischen Ahnen im Opferritual, Kommunikation mit den Toten im Film, KI-Gottheiten, Mentalzauberkunst oder dem Körper als Medium in zeitgenössischen Heilungskontexten. Sie erörtern die Selbstdarstellung religiöser Minderheiten im digitalen R...

International Society for Science & Religion's 2025 Book Prize recipient, in the category of books for professionals and educatorsArtificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people’s decisions and...

All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa Muerte; and Satanism.As with other books in the Routledge/Inform series, the contributors app...