Not quite the same but all about beleif-God interactions, and great fun, Terry Pratchett's 'Small Gods'.
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also, an interesting theme in Charles DeLint's Forests of the Heart, in the same realm as Gaiman.
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not an academic ref, but Neil Gaiman's American Gods has an intruiging take on how various immigrant races going to the new world took their gods with them, and *they changed*
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This has been explored in other areas, on other lists - NeosAlexandria has explored it a bit and it's an intersting idea (I'm afraid I can't change the subject in this email, but it probably needs a new one). How are the gods affected - if at all - when believers change their beliefs about them? There are articles dealing with various permutations of this in some of the NA publications....
On 8 February 2011 21:58, D E <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
the spoon belongs to anyone who beleives it is theirs strongly enough
it also occurs that what do we do where an extant relgious activity takes on new and 'foreign' aspects?
one example; the aboriginal dreaming paintings which reflect the land and tribal history etc of Australia, and (i think this was in a book by somebody like Lyall Watson) the painter than goes to a big city or rides in a plane, and on his return, paints skyscrapers and jets into his dreamtime scene- is that destroying the 'real' religious stuff, the often centuries-old evolving paintings, or is it toitally valid to go into the painting?
another example- tribal island religions that developed into Cargo Cults after world war 2
this brings in an aspect where religious belief changes within a society
*getting headache now!*
Dave E
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