At the Threshold of the Inverted Womb: Anti-Cosmic Satanism and Radical Freedom
During the 1980s and 1990s anti-cosmic Satanism emerged in the UK and Scandinavia as an attempt to merge ancient forms of Gnostic thought, highly performative, blasphemous manifestations of heavy metal subculture, and certain death-oriented, magical traditions from the Caribbean and Latin America. W...
Published in: | International journal for the study of new religions |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2013
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International journal for the study of new religions
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Further subjects: | B
Contemporary Legends
B Latin American Folk Religion B Satanism B Gnosticism B Heavy metal B Occultism |
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Summary: | During the 1980s and 1990s anti-cosmic Satanism emerged in the UK and Scandinavia as an attempt to merge ancient forms of Gnostic thought, highly performative, blasphemous manifestations of heavy metal subculture, and certain death-oriented, magical traditions from the Caribbean and Latin America. While culturally wide-ranging and syncretic in its theological outlook, anti-cosmic Satanism consistently emphasizes the abandonment of the physical body and a violent apocalyptic merger with an infinite satanic power. Anti-cosmic Satanism has risen in tandem with the popularity of Nordic black metal music, to which it is indelibly connected, making it one of the most controversial left-hand path traditions that has arisen since the 1980s. Paradoxically, anti-cosmic Satanism also borrows much from the folklore and narrative structures of Conservative Christianity regarding the existence of sincerely evil satanic cults. The hyper-transgressive attitudes and anti-Christian rhetoric of both black metal and anti-cosmic Satanism assert a fetishised morbidity, associating death with ultimate liberation. |
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ISSN: | 2041-952X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for the study of new religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.v4i2.231 |