TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bickerdike,Jennifer Otter
TI  - Secular religion of fandom
T2  - Sage swifts
SN  - 9781473907799
U1  - 306.1 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage
KW  - Subculture
KW  - Fans (Persons)
KW  - Mass media
N1  - 'The Secular Religion of Fandom' examines the function of fandom, specifically the visiting of spaces which have been recently deemed worthy of sanctification and a newly elevated status of importance. It examines how such pilgrimages are used as a means for forming and maintaining a common language of culture, creating a replacement apparatus based on more traditional frameworks of religious worship and salvation, while becoming an ever more dominant mechanism for constructing individuality and finding belonging in a commodified culture
ER  -