Chris Klassen
Biographic Data
| ID | 790354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Klassen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Klassen |
| SIGNATURE | KLASSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
When I teach Religion and Popular Culture, I have students explore the relationship between fantasy gaming and religion. Some get it (typically those who play the games). Some do not. Douglas Cowan has provided a resource to engage each of these groups. Those who already get it will be drawn to the many examples of the fantasy genres in which they are invested, and they will appreciate the seriousness and respect that Cowan provides. Those who di…
Honoring the duallium
Working within the discourses of material feminisms, disability studies, environmental ethics and religious studies, I analyse the letters between friends Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field published in Between Gardens (1999) about gardening, friendship and disability. I translate the experiences of illness and/or disability in the human body, to that of illness and/or damage of the rest of the natural world. My central questions are: What ki…
Wicked Cinema
Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 26(3), pp. 375–376
Katharine Wilkinson
The Role of Nature in the Construction of Ethics
To elucidate the concept of nature religion in contemporary Paganism, it is useful to contemplate the role nature itself plays in the process of Pagan formulations of ethics. To do this, I conducted focus groups with Pagans in Canada. I conclude that nature takes on, or is given, a variety of roles in the process of moral reasoning. This variety allows for multiple ethical perspectives from people holding more or less similar worldviews. Thus, my…
Handbook of Hyper-real Religions
The Handbook of Hyper-real Religions is a collection of essays responding to, and furthering, the discussion on hyper-real religions found in Adam Possamai’s previous text Religion and Popular Cult
TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture
This essay delineates the history, scope and mandate of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) in the larger context of Religious Studies. The JRPC produces scholarship on the myriad ways in which religion is presented, produced, studied, interpreted, rationalised, manufactured and disseminated in popular culture. This article explains the journal's distinctive genesis in a Canadian context and provides a succinct analysis of its sali…
The Metaphor of Goddess
This paper explores the way some contemporary feminist Pagan practitioners talk about nature and goddess. I see these feminist Pagans as providing an example of a religion of nature, much like that of Donald Crosby’s (2002) that focuses on nature as the ultimate. However, unlike Crosby’s religion of nature, which could be perceived as isolationist, these feminist Witches’ willingness to maintain theistic language through religious fictionalism, e…
Avatar, Dark Green Religion
to come
Nature Religion and the Ethics of Authenticity
Religion and Popular Culture in Canada
Teaching courses on religion and popular culture in a Canadian academic institution has provided me with significant challenges. According to Raymond Williams (1983), “popular” can have at least four meanings in common parlance. (1) It can mean that which is well-liked by a lot of people ( e.g., the top ten bestselling books); (2) it can mean that which is inferior to elite or high culture (e.g., pop music versus opera); (3) it can mean that whic…
Research Note
In an interview on BeliefNet.com, Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald Moore claimed that his portrayal of the human colonials as polytheistic in contrast to the monotheistic Cylons was a deliberate statement about tolerance and the lack of tolerance in modern monotheistic religions. The underlying assumption about the tolerance of polytheism is also percolating through wider Western society. The idea of multiple deities seems to strike a chord w…
The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft
This article explores the religious and political identities of feminist Witches through a discussion of the way feminist Witchcraft constructs prehistoric Goddess societies as colonized by patriarchal societies and early modern European witch hunts as maintaining that colonization. Feminist Witches often use colonial and postcolonial language to indicate the relationship between patriarchal religion(s) and/or system(s) and that of women and wome…
Religion and Canadian Society
The Goddess and/as the Cyborg
Feminist Witchcraft is a nature religion that posits a holism based on the immanence of the Goddess. This article outlines how these concepts—’nature’ and ‘holism’—are understood by feminist Witches and then explores the implications of these concepts in the context of two novels. A holism based on the inclusion of humanity and the rest of the natural world in the body of the Goddess implies that humans, and their cultural and mechanical construc…
The Goddess and/as the Cyborg
The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft
Cybercoven
Through a case study of one email discussion group, cybercoven, along with an analysis of a selection of typical Witchcraft web sites, I show how a rethinking of the divide between "virtual" and "real" allows solitary Witches to practice their earth-based religion online. Included in the analysis is a discussion of how divination rites are affected by online practice
The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft
Handbook of Hyper-real Religions
The Handbook of Hyper-real Religions is a collection of essays responding to, and furthering, the discussion on hyper-real religions found in Adam Possamai’s previous text Religion and Popular Cult
Research Note
In an interview on BeliefNet.com, Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald Moore claimed that his portrayal of the human colonials as polytheistic in contrast to the monotheistic Cylons was a deliberate statement about tolerance and the lack of tolerance in modern monotheistic religions. The underlying assumption about the tolerance of polytheism is also percolating through wider Western society. The idea of multiple deities seems to strike a chord w…
Cybercoven
Through a case study of one email discussion group, cybercoven, along with an analysis of a selection of typical Witchcraft web sites, I show how a rethinking of the divide between "virtual" and "real" allows solitary Witches to practice their earth-based religion online. Included in the analysis is a discussion of how divination rites are affected by online practice
The Role of Nature in the Construction of Ethics
To elucidate the concept of nature religion in contemporary Paganism, it is useful to contemplate the role nature itself plays in the process of Pagan formulations of ethics. To do this, I conducted focus groups with Pagans in Canada. I conclude that nature takes on, or is given, a variety of roles in the process of moral reasoning. This variety allows for multiple ethical perspectives from people holding more or less similar worldviews. Thus, my…
Cybercoven
Through a case study of one email discussion group, cybercoven, along with an analysis of a selection of typical Witchcraft web sites, I show how a rethinking of the divide between "virtual" and "real" allows solitary Witches to practice their earth-based religion online. Included in the analysis is a discussion of how divination rites are affected by online practice
The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft
The Goddess and/as the Cyborg
The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft
This article explores the religious and political identities of feminist Witches through a discussion of the way feminist Witchcraft constructs prehistoric Goddess societies as colonized by patriarchal societies and early modern European witch hunts as maintaining that colonization. Feminist Witches often use colonial and postcolonial language to indicate the relationship between patriarchal religion(s) and/or system(s) and that of women and wome…
Religion and Canadian Society
The Goddess and/as the Cyborg
Feminist Witchcraft is a nature religion that posits a holism based on the immanence of the Goddess. This article outlines how these concepts—’nature’ and ‘holism’—are understood by feminist Witches and then explores the implications of these concepts in the context of two novels. A holism based on the inclusion of humanity and the rest of the natural world in the body of the Goddess implies that humans, and their cultural and mechanical construc…
Research Note
In an interview on BeliefNet.com, Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald Moore claimed that his portrayal of the human colonials as polytheistic in contrast to the monotheistic Cylons was a deliberate statement about tolerance and the lack of tolerance in modern monotheistic religions. The underlying assumption about the tolerance of polytheism is also percolating through wider Western society. The idea of multiple deities seems to strike a chord w…
Religion and Popular Culture in Canada
Teaching courses on religion and popular culture in a Canadian academic institution has provided me with significant challenges. According to Raymond Williams (1983), “popular” can have at least four meanings in common parlance. (1) It can mean that which is well-liked by a lot of people ( e.g., the top ten bestselling books); (2) it can mean that which is inferior to elite or high culture (e.g., pop music versus opera); (3) it can mean that whic…
Nature Religion and the Ethics of Authenticity
The Metaphor of Goddess
This paper explores the way some contemporary feminist Pagan practitioners talk about nature and goddess. I see these feminist Pagans as providing an example of a religion of nature, much like that of Donald Crosby’s (2002) that focuses on nature as the ultimate. However, unlike Crosby’s religion of nature, which could be perceived as isolationist, these feminist Witches’ willingness to maintain theistic language through religious fictionalism, e…
Avatar, Dark Green Religion
to come
The Role of Nature in the Construction of Ethics
To elucidate the concept of nature religion in contemporary Paganism, it is useful to contemplate the role nature itself plays in the process of Pagan formulations of ethics. To do this, I conducted focus groups with Pagans in Canada. I conclude that nature takes on, or is given, a variety of roles in the process of moral reasoning. This variety allows for multiple ethical perspectives from people holding more or less similar worldviews. Thus, my…
Handbook of Hyper-real Religions
The Handbook of Hyper-real Religions is a collection of essays responding to, and furthering, the discussion on hyper-real religions found in Adam Possamai’s previous text Religion and Popular Cult
TheJournal of Religion and Popular Culture
This essay delineates the history, scope and mandate of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) in the larger context of Religious Studies. The JRPC produces scholarship on the myriad ways in which religion is presented, produced, studied, interpreted, rationalised, manufactured and disseminated in popular culture. This article explains the journal's distinctive genesis in a Canadian context and provides a succinct analysis of its sali…
Wicked Cinema
Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 26(3), pp. 375–376
Katharine Wilkinson
Honoring the duallium
Working within the discourses of material feminisms, disability studies, environmental ethics and religious studies, I analyse the letters between friends Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field published in Between Gardens (1999) about gardening, friendship and disability. I translate the experiences of illness and/or disability in the human body, to that of illness and/or damage of the rest of the natural world. My central questions are: What ki…
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
When I teach Religion and Popular Culture, I have students explore the relationship between fantasy gaming and religion. Some get it (typically those who play the games). Some do not. Douglas Cowan has provided a resource to engage each of these groups. Those who already get it will be drawn to the many examples of the fantasy genres in which they are invested, and they will appreciate the seriousness and respect that Cowan provides. Those who di…
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (7 works)