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Highlights
Contemporary religious mythology features a variety of cultural heroes
Contemporary mythmaking in the sphere of popular culture offers a wide range of role models – “new heroes”
It stands to mention that the analysis of meanings and artistic mythopoeia in the fictional religions is the subject of many discussions, emphasizing the importance of viewing the reason for human existence through philosophical, theological and anthropological concepts
Summary
Contemporary religious mythology features a variety of cultural heroes. Postmodern fantasy movies and literature pay much attention to infernal heroes: vampires, witches, werewolves, “twilight hunters”, zombies, warlocks, etc. Cultural heroes take on new semantic aspects, turning into instruments of social control and crowd manipulation. This function reflects the essential needs for ideals in contemporary mythological meaning-making. Contemporary “positive” mythical hero creates a certain conceptual framework of human values. How to cite this article: Evgenia Ivanova, (2018), “Religions in Fictional Worlds: Infernal Religious Mythology in Fantasy Series” in Convention 2017 “Modernization and Multiple Modernities”, KnE Social Sciences, pages 357–364. There appeared a new term, “fiction-religions”, as a definition for certain roleplaying computer games based on either traditional or emergent mythological motives and elaborated by artistic devices, such as literature, graphic arts, and cinema
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