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Article: Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture
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- Journal of American Folklore
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture. Ed. Jennifer E. Porter and Darcee L. McLaren. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 315, episodes and movies cited, bibliography, indices.)
THERESA A. VAUGHAN
University of Central Oklahoma
For those who like to see Star Trek taken seriously as the subject of folkloristic inquiry, there have been a few forays into an examination of Trek culture. Enterprising Women, by Camille Bacon-Smith (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994) leaps most prominently to mind. There, a serious examination of Trek fans as a subculture or folk group demonstrated that there are fruitful areas of ...