Tales of magic, myth and mystery: How fantasy fiction can keep religion in business
How do works of fantasy fiction – such as J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – represent and mediate religion? This is the central question addressed by Laura Feldt’s new study published by Religion. The research highlights the inextricable links between fantasy fiction and religion, claiming that there is an ever-increasing presence of ‘the religious in the fictional and the fictional in the religious’. Rather than being viewed as two separate strands functioning in